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Mortgage Insurers Lost Market Share Late in the Year, but Industry Gained Overall in 2017

February 15, 2018
John Bancroft
After surging to an unusually high level of 26.6 percent in 2016, market share for the VA home-loan guaranty program eased to 24.1 percent last year…
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Freddie, Like Fannie, Sees 4Q Results Get Smacked Around Because of Tax Changes, Will Need a $312 Million Check from Treasury

February 15, 2018
Paul Muolo
Prior to release of 4Q17 results, the GSEs had an “account balance” of $103.0 billion with Uncle Sam: $291.4 billion of dividends paid to Treasury versus $188.4 billion of assistance received.
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CFPB Continues with its ‘Public Input Series,’ Wants Feedback on Supervisory Processes

February 15, 2018
Thomas Ressler
This is the fourth in a series of RFIs announced as part of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s “call for evidence.”
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Behind the White House’s Request to Shore Up FHA Tech: 73 System Outages in 2017

February 15, 2018
John Bancroft
The budget proposal calls for exempting “small lenders” – companies that generate about 20 percent of FHA business – from the IT fee.
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At $600K a Year, Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos is Underpaid. GSE Worries About CEO ‘Succession’ Planning

February 15, 2018
Paul Muolo
No one has suggested publicly that Mayopoulos is unhappy with his pay, but in a new 10-K filing, Fannie worries that...
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Shell Company Stuffed with NOLs Agrees to Buy Nation’s Third Largest Servicer in a Feat of Financial Engineering

February 15, 2018
WMIH Corp., a shell company whose chief asset is tax losses, this week agreed to purchase Nationstar Mortgage for roughly $1.68 billion in cash and stock.
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Short Takes: Is Mel Watt Dropping Hints? / A Utility Model for Fannie and Freddie? / Refi Applications on the Rise (Ever So Slightly) / No (Permanent) Ginnie Prez, No FHA Chief / Uber Executive’s Foray Into Mortgages

February 15, 2018
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., states: “This sounds like the early stages of a utility model..."
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New GOP Tax Law Blows a Hole in Fannie Mae’s 4Q17 Results, FHFA Expected to Ask Treasury for $3.7B in Cash to Eliminate the ‘Net Worth’ Deficit

February 14, 2018
Paul Muolo and Carisa Chappell
The DTA hit Fannie took and the resulting net loss was fully expected and likely won’t cause an uproar on Capitol Hill. However, one lobbyist quipped: "Ah, the first taxpayer bailout of a large financial institution since the Great Recession."
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Why Not Make the FHLBanks MBS Guarantors Too?

February 14, 2018
Carisa Chappell
Under this arrangement, the FHLBanks would be “jointly and severally liable” for the obligations of any single-family guarantor formed under the new system…
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127 Mortgage Banking Executives Sign ‘Open Letter’ to Congress on GSE Reform

February 14, 2018
Paul Muolo
Housing finance reform legislation is being worked on in the House and Senate but has yet to be formally introduced.
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