We continue to hear reports about a new player in the warehouse lending space that is offering attractive borrowing rates that appear too good to be true.
Associates of Erbey told IMFnews that he knew several weeks ago that he would be stepping down from the company and viewed himself as a sacrificial lamb of sorts…
One analyst, Farukh Farooqi of Marquis Research, told IMFnews that Ocwen’s board should consider dumping CEO Ron Faris. “I mean where does the buck stop?” Farooqi said.
Wall Street analysts are generally projecting a year of stability for most asset classes in the consumer ABS space for 2015, despite a few more losses and an anticipated increase in interest rates. The one exception might be subprime auto. Analysts at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services cited a favorable overall environment characterized by a strengthening economy, healthy consumer credit fundamentals, and robust structural protections in ABS transactions. “We expect...
The number of issuers offering jumbo mortgage-backed securities will increase in 2015, according to analysts at various rating services, but total issuance volume isn’t expected to grow by much compared with this year. Attracting investors willing to purchase AAA tranches of jumbo MBS remains a key obstacle. Some $5.4 billion in jumbo MBS were issued during the first three quarters in 2014, according to Inside Nonconforming Markets, including $3.1 billion in the third quarter ...
Non-agency financing sources could replace the government-sponsored enterprises with relatively minor impacts for borrowers, according to a report released this week by the Congressional Budget Office. “Although the transition to a new structure could significantly decrease the number of borrowers who received mortgages backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, additional private capital would replace most of the lost funding,” the CBO said. The nonpartisan ...