The Mortgage Bankers Association last week wrote the CFPB and other government regulators and agencies to warn that a rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission last year could harm mortgage servicers when they try to provide early intervention with homeowners who are delinquent on their mortgages. The FCC’s order aims to bolster consumer protections against unwanted telephone calls and texts by, in part, restricting the ability of mortgage servicers, debt collectors and others to make autodialed or prerecorded phone calls without prior express consent of the person called. Violators can be subject to fines of $500 per phone call. But according to the MBA, the rule “threatens to expose mortgage servicers to significant and possibly unavoidable liability when they ...
During the subprime boom, HSBC owned Household Finance, a once-top ranked subprime lender and servicer that was later cited for lending and servicing violations.
Legacy RMBS-related legal action continued this week in both Washington, DC, and in New York City as the fallout from the financial crisis continues. In the nation’s capital, Morgan Stanley agreed to a second settlement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., this time for $62.95 million, to resolve RMBS-related claims stemming from the failure of three financial institutions in the wake of the collapse of the mortgage market. The institutions are...
Among those hiring is Jordan Capital Finance, Chicago, which seeks to add new loan reps and a senior vice president of sales and business development...
Securities backed by nonperforming mortgages, one of the biggest sources of volume currently in the non-agency MBS market, are expected to continue to look good for investors and issuers, even as the housing market recovers. This week, analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch recommended investing in senior tranches of non-agency MBS backed by nonperforming loans. “As things get bad for risk assets and we recommend positioning for further widening in risk premium, NPL senior tranches stand out...
The expected increase in interest rates on some previously modified home mortgages is a slight credit negative for RMBS performance because these loans will re-default at a higher rate, according to analysts at Moody’s Investors Service. However, higher default rates will have only a modest effect on subprime and Alt A RMBS, because only a small percentage of outstanding subprime and Alt A mortgage loans are positioned to experience future rate step-ups. In their research, the analysts found that subprime and Alt A modified loans become delinquent more frequently after a rate step-up. “Modified subprime and Alt A loans with a demonstrated performance history of four to five years become delinquent at a significantly higher rate after a step-up in interest rates than do loans of a similar type and vintage that have not stepped up,” said the analysts in a new report released this week. According to their data, in July 2015, only 2 percent of the modified re-performing subprime loans became...
Paul Hindman, a consultant at Grid Financial Services, had this to stay about the deal: “The more important question is what other mortgage-related companies are on Computershare’s shopping list….”
Mortgages to borrowers who misrepresented their occupancy status perform much worse than loans to borrowers who truthfully identify themselves as investors, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The researchers examined purchase mortgages originated between 2005 and 2007. Loan-level data from McDash Analytics was matched with credit bureau data from Equifax. The researchers defined borrowers as having committed ...
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