Warehouse lenders that supply credit to nonbank originators have seen usage rates and new line requests increase significantly in the past few weeks, thanks in part to plunging interest rates brought about by the “Brexit” vote. David Frase, president of warehouse lending for Southwest Bank, said, “Any warehouse bank that isn’t seeing record volume is probably malfunctioning in some way. We’ve been pretty darn busy.” Other warehouse managers have reported...
Mortgage lenders’ compliance personnel not only need to help their companies navigate all of the external regulations and laws imposed by federal and state policymakers, they also face challenges internally from representatives of various business lines in their own shops that inadvertently complicate their mission as professionals – particularly when it comes to loan originator compensation issues. “Dodging the land mines. That’s really how I think about this as a practitioner,” Loretta Salzano, founding partner at the Franzén and Salzano law firm in suburban Atlanta, said during a presentation at the American Bankers Association’s regulatory compliance conference, held last month in San Diego. She elaborated...
This attendee said one primary concern was whether nonbank Ginnie issuers would have the financial wherewithal to make advances to MBS investors in the event of another financial crisis.
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