An official involved in the non-agency MBS market said it’s easier to sell private placements than it is to meet requirements for publicly registered deals
The DBO request for proposal asks that applicants for the Ocwen contract state whether they – or any affiliates – have done any consulting work for the servicer.
On loans with LTVs ranging from 90 percent to 95 percent, for example, GSE pricing was better for all borrowers with credit scores over 620. But things are different now.
Ocwen Financial may have to settle with investors in non-agency MBS it services to avoid having the underlying servicing rights being yanked away by a trustee, according to investors and analysts tracking the situation. Early this week, Ocwen attorney Richard Jacobsen sent a letter to the law firm of Gibbs & Bruns, sternly telling the attorneys for some of the RMBS holders that there is no basis for default under the trust agreements. Gibbs & Bruns is working...
The European Central Bank’s launch of a Fed-like quantitative easing program will likely keep the yield spread flat and interest rates low. The ECB plans monthly purchases of €60 billion in ABS and covered bonds issued by central governments, agencies and banks in the euro zone. U.S. experts have been mulling...
“Obviously we’ve touched a nerve,” Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said of the FHFA’s proposal to revise standards for membership in the Federal Home Loan Bank System. At a hearing this week by the House Financial Services Committee, a number of Congressmen raised concerns about the proposed rule the FHFA issued in September. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-OK, was skeptical of the FHFA’s intentions, asking what problem the FHFA was trying to fix. “There are some potential problems that we are trying to fix, to make sure that the FHLBanks meet the statutory purposes that have been set,” Watt replied. “First of all, you don’t want anybody to be a member of the FHLBank system and get ...
Mortgage vendors usually see their fortunes rise and fall based on loan origination volume, but don’t tell that to DocMagic, which is consolidating its hold in the document preparation business. In a year in which residential production fell 34 percent, the Torrance, CA-based DocMagic grew its client base to 7,500, a gain of 1,000 in just over 12 months. The privately held doc prep/software company doesn’t generally disclose revenue figures, but according to ...
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