Combining the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program and the traditional forward mortgage program in assessing the soundness of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund could produce inaccurate results and ill-advised policy changes, warned the Urban Institute. Analysts at the institute said the FHA’s basis for assessing the MMI Fund’s solvency creates a distorted picture of the value of the fund and that the agency should separately assess its forward and reverse mortgage businesses to get an accurate picture of their performance and impact on the fund. The FY 2015 actuarial report drew...

Among the top five jumbo lenders, only Chase was able to increase its production between the second quarter and the third quarter.

Ellington Financial, a REIT that carries an 11.20 percent dividend and yield, has admitted to buying non-QM loans in past filings with the SEC, but has not racked up huge volumes...

So, whatever happened to Beach Point Capital’s $70 million subprime MBS? Sources contend the deal is very close with strong investor interest...

In percentage terms, the sharpest downturn was in home-equity ABS, although this sector represented just 1.6 percent of bank ABS investment and there has been no new production in years.

Hope Now said 75,969 foreclosure sales were completed in the third quarter of 2015, a 15.0 percent sequential decline and down 30.8 percent compared to 3Q14

HomeUnion Lending is licensed to operate in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, and Oklahoma, but plans on expanding its reach to 16 more states by the end of March 2016.

Dallas also sized the comfort level on personal loans, saying the loan amounts would probably be in the range of $10,000 to $35,000.

Monique Rollins, deputy assistant secretary for the Treasury Department’s Office of Capital Markets, said the Treasury supports industry-driven efforts.

Some investors won’t return to the non-agency MBS market until the federal government establishes minimum standards for issuers, according to Chris Katopis, executive director of the Association of Mortgage Investors. Speaking at the RMBS 3.0 symposium produced by Information Management Network and the Structured Finance Industry Group this month in New York, Katopis said investors are frustrated with the lack of action from the government to help the non-agency MBS market. “We know there’s a lot of work going on, but at some point the government has to set minimum standards,” he said.Katopis said investors are happy that SFIG is working on a new representation-and-warranty framework for non-agency MBS. However, the AMI is skeptical of voluntary industry standards. “Having ...