Treasury would be barred from selling or disposing of “any senior preferred shares, any interest in the warrants, any common shares acquired upon the exercise of the warrants, or any other equity interest that were acquired pursuant to the Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement.”
Credit card issuers will probably have a good 2018, much like they did last year, but some dark clouds are beginning to appear on the horizon, according to a new report from DBRS.
Ginnie Mae is expanding its guidelines to clarify the amount of risk it considers acceptable for an issuer’s Ginnie mortgage servicing rights portfolio and what could happen if the issuer violates those standards. The move is part of the agency’s continuous monitoring of issuer activity and MSR portfolios to ensure they are not putting issuers, investors or the program at risk.
Ginnie Mae is expanding its guidelines to clarify the amount of risk it considers acceptable for an issuer’s mortgage servicing rights portfolio and what administrative actions an issuer with excessive portfolio risk could face. The move is part of the agency’s continuous monitoring of issuer activity and MSR portfolios to ensure they are not putting issuers, investors or the program at risk. In its revised MBS Guide, Ginnie provides examples that fall outside of the acceptable risk parameters. Issuers deemed to carry excessive risk will find their participation in the MBS program greatly restricted, the agency warned. In addition, Ginnie may require offenders to recalibrate their high-risk portfolio to more acceptable risk levels, diversify their portfolio, or restrict their participation in Ginnie’s co-issue program, Pool Issues for Immediate Transfer (PIIT) and/or multiple pools. Ginnie is urging issuers to review the ...
President Trump this week signed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government operating until Feb. 8, 2018. The bill ended a three-day shutdown after the previous spending authority for most of the government expired at midnight on Jan. 19. However, the threat of another shutdown looms. FHA and Ginnie Mae both had contingency plans in place in case the short-lived shutdown dragged on, as it had in 2013. That event lasted for 16 days, at a loss of $1.6 billion a day to the federal government. Under FHA’s emergency plan, the agency would continue to endorse new single-family forward mortgages, but not Home Equity Conversion Mortgages and Title I loans. Ginnie would reduce staffing to essential personnel but continue its secondary market operations. It would continue to remit timely payment of principal and interest to investors, grant commitment authority and support issuance of ...
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