The one truism about mortgage banking that everyone knows: It’s a highly cyclical business that lives and dies on two central factors, interest rates and employment.

The CFPB brought just 11 enforcement actions in 2018...

Pulling the strings behind the non-QM curtain: A giant named PIMCO...

S&P and dv01 cited concerns about how mortgage servicers and trustees are handling the reporting of non-QMs in terms of delinquency and forbearance...

Thanks to the economic carnage caused by the pandemic, interest rates continue to drift lower, with some originators offering 30-year FRMs at under 3.0% and 15-year mortgages below 2.0%.

For HUD, the central question boils down to this: Will the MMIF have enough cash on hand to weather what could turn out to be a delinquency tsunami on the FHA book of business?

Altisource added: “We anticipate this short- to medium-term pressure on our default related businesses to continue with governmental forbearance programs and moratoriums temporarily preventing servicers from pursuing foreclosure of delinquent loans..."

But there was good news. Thanks to the origination boom, the company’s new insurance written jumped to $25.5 billion in 2Q20, a sequential gain of 52.7%.

The Caliber CEO recommends patience in reopening offices, saying opting to wait has kept his employees safe from the surge of COVID-19 cases in Texas...