Although Provident entered into a consent order, it said in a follow-up statement that it has no knowledge that brokers “were allegedly overcharging certain borrowers.”
According to figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Finance, Provident ranks eighth nationwide among all table-funders, based on first quarter 2015 production.
“These are serious loan officers,” he noted. Just how serious? According to the show’s website, some of the top producing LOs in attendance earn between $500,000 and $5 million…
It stands to reason that by waiving the charge that Freddie might take in less revenue, but a GSE spokesman said as a financial matter, “it’s not material.”
The former analyst said Freddie has “an inferior security [MBS] necessitating the need for a lot of time and expense to create a common securitization platform…”