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Why Aren’t There More Subprime Originations? A Lack of Incentives for LOs, Perhaps?

August 3, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Caliber has loosened requirements for its nonprime production, making changes to guidelines every six weeks or so…
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Slip Sliding Away: Securitization of ARMs

August 2, 2016
Brandon Ivey
An estimated $46 billion in ARMs were originated in the first quarter of 2016, down 2.1 percent from the previous quarter…
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Freddie Mac CEO Don Layton: HARP Announcement Coming ‘Soon’

August 2, 2016
Carisa Chappell
In the past, the FHFA has shot down a couple of program myths and emphasized that being significantly underwater doesn’t disqualify borrowers from using HARP…
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Short Takes: Freddie Mac, An ‘Earner’ for Uncle Sam / GSE Investors Wonder: When Do We Get Ours? / Top LO Bolts for New Penn / Oaktree’s Non-QM Volume / Ocwen Readies $500 Million ABS

August 2, 2016
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
Investors in Freddie (and Fannie Mae) common and preferred who bought their shares as a speculative investment are still wondering: Hey, when do we get some of that money?
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Average G-Fee for 2015: 59 BPs. FHFA Chief Tells Industry Agency is Consistently ‘Re-Evaluating’ the Charges

August 2, 2016
Paul Muolo
Compared to 2011, g-fees (which include LLPAs) have increased a whopping 126 percent.
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Freddie Mac Posts $993 Million Profit for 2Q16 Despite $2.0 Billion of Marks on Derivatives; G-Fee Income Up 17 Percent

August 2, 2016
Paul Muolo
Freddie purchased $91 billion of home mortgages from its seller/servicers in 2Q16, a handsome 31.8 percent improvement from the prior period.
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Fed LO Survey: Almost 12 Percent of Lenders Doing GSE Loans Loosened Credit in 2Q16

August 2, 2016
Brandon Ivey
However, for the six other loan types tracked by the Fed, mortgage underwriting standards were largely unchanged…
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Short Takes: In FHA Lending, We Don’t Trust / Let the FHA Condo Lending Begin! / MGIC Prepares Debt Offering / Tech Platform in Capital Raise / A Promotion at Williston

August 1, 2016
Paul Muolo
The new bill signed by President Obama should make condo lending a little easier...
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FHA Cracks the $1 Trillion Mark. New Issuance Exceeds Runoff

August 1, 2016
John Bancroft
Refinancing has been heavy this year. Ginnie MBS outstanding at the end of 2015 lost $99.51 billion of FHA loans through the first six months of 2016.
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Whatever Happened to AIG’s Spinoff of United Guaranty? We May Know More Tuesday

August 1, 2016
Paul Muolo
Most observers believe the UGC IPO will happen – it’s just a matter of when. Maybe in September?
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