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Embrace Home Loans Hires a Deephaven Capital Markets VP to Head Product Innovation

March 8, 2018

Parkes Dibble was previously vice president of capital markets...

Short Takes: Risk Sharing Denting GSE Profits? / Time to Put on the Investment Banking Hat? / Someone at HUD Hates Semi-Colons / Now, More than Ever, it Might be Time for All Concerned at HUD to Take the ‘Niceness Pledge’ / Invitation Homes Executive Gets

March 8, 2018

Whatever happened to the “niceness” pledge that Carson wanted everyone there to take? Certainly, if there’s a need for niceness at HUD, it might be now…

RBS Settles Legacy Non-Agency MBS Case with NY, Investigation by DOJ Pending

March 7, 2018

Brandon Ivey

According to a tally from Inside MBS & ABS, RBS/Greenwich Capital ranked second among all subprime MBS underwriters that brought deals to market from 2004 to 2007 with $261 billion.

Short Takes: Gary Cohn’s Resignation and the GSEs / Don’t Assume Anything / Fannie Mae’s ‘10 Percent Moment’ / Okay, Now’s the Time / SolomonEdwards Names Ranieri to its Board

March 7, 2018

Paul Muolo

GSE shareholder rights group Investor Unite was quick to pounce on the Pollock blog...

New York Fed Suggests a Few Improvements to the GSE CRT Programs

March 6, 2018

Carisa Chappell

The New York Fed argues that CRTs have reduced the GSEs’ exposure to mortgage credit risk without disrupting the stability of the secondary mortgage market…

Warehouse Commitments Begin to Suffer, ‘Usage Levels’ Fall into the Ugly Zone

March 6, 2018

Paul Muolo

With rates rising steadily since late last year and refinancing growing scarce, nonbanks are now experiencing weak origination volumes…

Mortgage Securities Investors Have Mixed Feelings About the CFPB

March 6, 2018

Brandon Ivey

MBS investors are encouraged the bureau is more willing to listen to industry participants, but they have concerns about assignee liability and grim predictions about increased regulation by the states.