Mat Ishbia, president and CEO of UWM, said “retail competitors and large servicers are intensely working to solicit” borrowers who received their existing mortgages through brokers.
Loose IT security controls could have made it possible for a malicious employee, or an external party with access to that employee's account, to gain full control of the FHFA network.
The proposal, published by Andrew Davidson, seeks to create a platform where regulators, investors, mortgage servicers and more would share their own data and receive access to the broader pool of data, in an effort that could decrease costs and improve attempts to aggregate mortgage data.