Acting Ginnie Mae President Michael Bright: “If they don’t have money to make principal and interest payments to investors every 20th day of the month, then Ginnie MBS are in trouble.”
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.
In January, the government-sponsored enterprises and Ginnie placed their guarantees on $102.48 billion of new single-family MBS, a modest 6.9 percent decline from December.
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.