Short Takes: First American’s Systems Exposed? / Forensic Team Hired / Whatever You Do, Don’t Treat Your Employees Like Family / Another New Hire for FHFA / GSE Preferred Shares Repaid? May 28, 2019 Paul Muolo FHFA hires a new legislative affairs director...Read More
AEI Blames FHA Volume Decline on TOTAL. MBA Says Pinto Is Wrong May 1, 2019 George Brooks However, the Mortgage Bankers Association disagrees with Pinto’s findings...Read More
LendingTree Posts Record Revenue for 1Q19, but Suffers a Loss April 26, 2019 Paul Muolo LendingTree played up the results of its nonmortgage-related businesses and increased its overall revenue forecast for the year.Read More
More Red Ink for Industry Vendor Altisource April 25, 2019 Paul Muolo Altisource is in the process of selling its financial services business, which should bring in roughly $44 million...Read More
Short Takes: JPM’s Latest Outreach Effort to RE Brokers / #3 in Retail / A Quick History Lesson / A Strong Quarter for MGIC / A New CEO for LoanLogics April 23, 2019 Paul Muolo Chase is looking for an edge with realtors...Read More
OIG: FHFA Understated Cost to Develop UMBS Platform April 23, 2019 Dennis Hollier As early as October 2016, the FHFA was aware the project was "off track" and additional costs were likely, the IG said...Read More
Short Takes: Pacific Union Made $32M in Loans to Members / Mortgages to Employees? / Invitation Homes Pays Off Loans Early / A Reshuffle at Mortgage Capital Trading / PRMI Hires Reverse Manager April 22, 2019 Paul Muolo Lending to one's own employees: How big of a deal?Read More
Brookings Warns of Hidden Discrimination in Algorithms April 22, 2019 Yemeng Yang The adoption of new technologies will pose challenges for originators to comply with fair lending rules and for regulators to detect hidden discrimination.Read More
What We’re Hearing: Good Luck Mr. Calabria / So What’s First on the List? / Digital Mortgages, the Great Mortgage Employment Reducer? / About that 25 BPs LLPA Charge from Fannie Mae / Op-Ed by Caliber CEO Das Sets Tongues Wagging April 12, 2019 Paul Muolo A new op-ed from Caliber Home Loans CEO Sanjiv Das has people talking, and not necessarily in a good way...Read More
What We’re Hearing: Franklin Raines’ Dream / FannieMae.com? / The Hype Behind Digital Mortgages and Cost Savings / Replacing Moderately Paid Workers with Expensive Programmers / Calabria a Lock? / NAR's GSE Ideas February 22, 2019 Paul Muolo And here’s another farce: Once the system is built, maintaining it will be cheap (because regulations and products never change)…Read More