General Electric is exploring the possibility of a settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve an ongoing federal investigation of its discontinued pre-crisis subprime mortgage business, known as WMC.
Pete Carroll, an executive at CoreLogic, noted that many Democrats in Congress will not support a housing finance reform bill unless such provisions are included.
The firms that have been warned by Ginnie are: Cardinal Financial, Flagstar, Freedom Mortgage, JG Wentworth, loanDepot, Nations Lending, New Day Financial, SunWest Mortgage and Texas Capital Bank.
Analysts are monitoring prepayment speeds to see if Ginnie Mae’s efforts to curb serial refinancing or loan churning are having an impact. Wells Fargo Securities analysts said a conversation about churning has started with a handful of Ginnie mortgage-backed securities issuers, which “should be a net benefit for MBS,” especially for higher coupons where outlier speeds are most prevalent. In a recent alert, the analysts said the momentum continues to build to curb churning of VA loans following notification of lenders suspected of engaging in the activity. Nine issuers have received written warnings based on unusual prepayment rates in VA-backed MBS. Such deviations from market norms for an extended period are not acceptable because they put veterans’ earned benefits at risk, the agency said. The outliers were discovered after a comprehensive review of issuer performance and ...
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