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Short Takes: Bob Ryan Departs FHFA / The Live Well Mystery / A Unicorn of Sorts: Ginnie IOs Backed by HECMs? / Entering Chapter 7 / Mortgage Applications Decline Ever So Slightly / A New Hire for ACES

July 3, 2019
Paul Muolo

FHFA Director Mark Calabria on Bob Ryan: “Bob’s advice and counsel during my transition have been invaluable. I greatly appreciate his service at FHFA during the past five years and his role in helping ensure liquidity and funding for the nation’s housing finance system...”


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Sources: Live Well Financial, the Warehouse Customer That Dented Customers Bank

July 3, 2019
Paul Muolo

If Live Well’s name sounds familiar, it should. In an SEC filing late this spring, Flagstar said it was owed $75 million by the company…


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Short Takes: Customers Says Warehouse Client Went Bust but No ID, as Yet / The Return of Craig Phillips (Sort Of) / Fitch Remains Cautious on ‘Alt Doc’ Loans / Enjoy Yourself, It’s Later Than You Think (Debt) / Don Layton Gets Into Harvard

July 2, 2019
Paul Muolo, Brandon Ivey, and Yemeng Yang

How do you get out of a debt bubble? Answer: Raise taxes and cut spending, something U.S. politicians have been loath to do. Or you could print more money...


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What We’re Hearing: Sharpen Your Pencils: Here Come the Servicing ‘Marks’ / The Layton ‘Era’ Ends at Freddie / To Be Heard From Again (Bet on It) / Ben Carson’s New (Side) Job / Quicken’s ‘Pinnacle’ Club

June 28, 2019
Paul Muolo

As we’ve noted before, Calabria is building a dream team of industry vets and policy experts, whose chief task likely will entail working with the Treasury Department on administrative reform…


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FHA’s Achilles’ Heel: Technology and Risk Management

June 28, 2019
George Brooks

FHA's Keith Becker: “The industry and most of our lender partners are leveraging this technology now, and we have to find a way to do that as well so we can stay current with the industry’s direction..."


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HUD Throws Down the Gauntlet on DACA Loans: Not Eligible for FHA Insurance

June 28, 2019
George Brooks

According to HUD’s policy handbook, a non-permanent resident alien is eligible for FHA financing if the property will be the borrower’s principal residence…


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Trump Signs Bill Eliminating the Cap on VA Mortgages

June 26, 2019
George Brooks

H.R. 299 eliminates the cap on VA home loans, which means that qualified homebuyers can now borrow above the agency’s standard loan limit of $484,350 for most counties in 2019 with no downpayment requirements.


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Mega REIT Annaly: GSEs Should Shrink Their Non-Core Footprint

June 26, 2019
Paul Muolo

Annaly and Barclays also like the idea of replacing Fannie and Freddie with several smaller MBS guarantors. At March 31, Annaly owned roughly $103 billion worth of agency mortgage-backed securities...


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Controversial ex-CFPB Official Gets HUD Post, Will Work on Ginnie Mae Issues

June 24, 2019
Yemeng Yang

In May of this year Blankenstein resigned from the CFPB, where he served as associate policy director overseeing supervision, enforcement and fair lending. His past writings came to light in the fall of 2018.


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Waterfall to Issue Another Proprietary Reverse-Mortgage MBS; RMF Preps HECM Buyout Deal

June 24, 2019
Brandon Ivey

The $377.47 million deal from Waterfall Asset Management marks the second non-agency MBS backed by proprietary reverse mortgages to receive a credit rating since 2007.


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