The parent company of FirstBank this month filed for an initial public offering of common stock, hoping to raise upwards of $115.0 million. Among its goals: to increase originations and bolster its investment in mortgage servicing rights. Headquartered in Tennessee, the community bank has significantly increased its mortgage activity in recent years, according to IPO documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by FB Financial. The bank funded $2.76 billion in ...
A proposed rule published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. earlier in the year regarding recordkeeping requirements would “unnecessarily increase costs for banks and servicers,” according to George Green, an associate vice president at the Mortgage Bankers Association. The proposed rule would apply to depositories with more than two million deposit accounts. Under the regulation, banks would generally be required to maintain complete and ...
Fix-and-flip lender California Capital Real Estate Advisors, Pasadena, late last month raised $10 million in capital through its CALCAP Income Fund 1. The company hopes to add at least $15 million more by the time September ends. Its eventual goal: to raise $100 million. Started by industry veteran Mark Mozilo and others in the wake of the financial crisis, the company’s forte is lending money to contractors who purchase homes and fix them up for a quick resale. In 2015 ...
The GSEs recently introduced a new loan dispute procedure that lenders should use prior to engaging a third-party arbitrator. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac launched their independent dispute resolution process early in the year as the final piece to the representation-and-warranties framework to help prevent buybacks.This process uses a neutral third-party arbitrator to determine a final, binding decision about whether there was a loan violation.However, the new impasse and management escalation process, announced last week, is intended to serve as an intermediary between the normal loan dispute appeal process and the final IDR process for seller/servicers.
It was the highest three-month total for government-insured lending on record, although private mortgage insurance did more business in the second quarter than either FHA or VA…
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