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A Blowout Origination Quarter for Home Lenders: A Hefty $565 Billion for 2Q19

July 25, 2019
John Bancroft

Which top-10 home lender had the largest sequential gain in 2Q19? Quicken? UWM? Guess again. It was Freedom Mortgage with 81.9%.


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Money-Losing Altisource Ready to Pull the (Sale) Ripcord?

July 25, 2019

Altisource is headed by William Shepro, who was paid $6.1 million last year. Over the past three years, the CEO took home $15.2 million in total compensation, which includes salary, bonuses, stock and options.


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Short Takes: Fitch Worries About Nonbanks and the Ginnie Market / Strong Non-QM Growth for Angel Oak / The Top Five EC Lenders / Another Weak Application Reading from MBA / HUD Delays Implementation Date on DPA Rule / Cloudvirga Hires loanDepot Tech Exec

July 24, 2019
Sherry Muolo

Across the board, lenders are reporting stellar origination growth from the first to second quarters of the year, but the last two application surveys from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed weekly declines of 1.9% and 1.1%, respectively…


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SOFR Likely to Replace LIBOR in New ARMs

July 24, 2019
Brandon Ivey

Jody Shenn, a senior analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, said, “ARRC’s recommendations and Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s ability to guide standards are signs that mostly uniform approaches will be used in mortgage originations.”


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OCC Issues Caution on Mortgage-Related ‘Asset Dissipation Lending’

July 24, 2019
Paul Muolo

On Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loans, originators are permitted to use ADU to underwrite loans based on employment-related retirement assets or “certain other assets of applicants who are near retirement,” the OCC noted.


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Ginnie Mae Issues RFI on ‘Stress Test’ for Agency Issuers

July 23, 2019
George Brooks

Acting Ginnie Mae President Maren Kasper: “The RFI enables the agency to incorporate the views of a wide variety of stakeholders as we continue to refine the model, implement policy and evaluate potential risk to the U.S. housing finance system.”


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Short Takes: A Strong Quarter for MGIC / A Slight Profit Dip for Warehouse Lender Texas Capital / A Decline in Prepays? (Believe It) / What the Federal Reserve Should Do… / Ocwen Director Calls it a Day

July 23, 2019
Paul Muolo

According to new figures released by Black Knight, mortgage prepayments declined by 7.5% in June despite mortgage rates being under the 4.0% threshold. The data analytics firm said it was the first decline in prepays in five months. Go figure…


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The Highest Paid Mortgage Executive Last Year: Lending Tree CEO Doug Lebda

July 23, 2019
Paul Muolo

Lending Tree is not an originator as such, but acts as a middleman between originators and funders. Its menu includes not only residential mortgages but auto and business loans, credit cards and student debt.


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VA Issues Funding Fee Guidance to Originators

July 23, 2019
George Brooks

Veterans are charged a funding fee at origination to cover the cost of administering a VA-guaranteed loan. However, certain veterans are exempt from the fee…


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A Stumbling Block to Non-QM: Interested Loan Officers

July 23, 2019
Brandon Ivey

Angel Oak’s Tom Hutchens: “If you don’t commit to it and dedicate some resources, you are going to be even more inefficient.”


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