Fun fact: Ginnie Mae servicing now represents 16.5 percent of all residential debt outstanding – more than triple the program’s market share at the end of 2008.
The market for mortgage mergers and acquisitions is beginning to heat up with talk about who’s in – and who might be out. According to investment banking officials speaking under the condition they not be identified, Caliber Home Loans and Flagstar Bancorp continue to make their intentions known as buyers. “Caliber is looking to make a big splash,” noted one advisor who said he’s been contacted by the privately held lender. “And they have money behind them too.” That “money” would be...
The Trump administration plans to issue a request for information (RFI) regarding a Department of Labor final rule currently on hold that would raise the annual salary threshold for employee exemption from overtime pay. Testifying before the House Committee on Appropriations last week, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said the proposed RFI would seek public comment regarding the economic or anticipated impact of raising the annual salary requirement for overtime exemption from the current $23,660 to $47,476, as the previous administration had proposed. The Obama administration issued...