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Paul Muolo

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Short Takes: Wells Fargo Executive Takes a Job with UCM / The NAR is Not Happy with FEMA / No Word From Peter Bell and NRMLA / Fannie Mae Director Haywood Moves On / Trouble in the Sandbox

December 27, 2018
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
The National Association of Realtors is none too happy with FEMA's actions during the government shutdown...
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PIMCO Working on a Massive Securitization of Whole Loans?

December 27, 2018
Paul Muolo
It’s common knowledge that the foreign-owned PIMCO is an active buyer of non-agency loans…
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Mortgage Industry Assesses Pain from Government Shutdown, HECM Endorsements End, New Flood Policies Doubtful

December 26, 2018
Paul Muolo
Brian Chappelle, a principal in Potomac Partners told IMFnews that his lending clients “are starting to worry.”
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Short Takes: Trouble Ahead for FHA? / Steve Mnuchin’s Christmas Eve Massacre / Significant Players in the Mortgage Market / Who Knows / Who Put the Thought in the Treasury Secretary’s Head? / Craig Phillips Rising? / A New Hire for StoneHill

December 26, 2018
Paul Muolo
Was it Mnuchin’s idea to call the six bank CEOs or did President Trump put him up to it? That storyline has yet to be fully explored…
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Varde Ponders Selling Nonprime Unit Deephaven Mortgage

December 26, 2018
Paul Muolo
Matt Nichols, a former Goldman Sachs executive, launched Deephaven earlier in the decade as a correspondent buyer of non-QM loans.
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Not Going Anywhere: HUD Secretary Ben Carson

December 21, 2018
Paul Muolo
Meanwhile, acting Ginnie Mae President Michael Bright still awaits Senate confirmation, even though he was officially nominated to the post by President Trump on May 15.
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As Expected, OCC Chief Otting Tapped by White House to be Interim FHFA Director

December 21, 2018
Paul Muolo
Joseph Otting will be joining the Trump administration's "two-hat" club...
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What We’re Hearing: The Senate Waiting Game and Mark Calabria / What Might Mnuchin Come Up With? / Otting and Mnuchin and One West / Angelo Mozilo Makes it Rain Once More / MorVest’s MSR Auction / George Bailey Lives (A VA Story) / A Short Publishing Brea

December 21, 2018
Paul Muolo
The news of Otting’s appointment and what might transpire afterwards did nothing to boost the share price of Fannie and Freddie common...
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A Land Rush Into Non-QM Lending? Carrington Preps First Deal

December 20, 2018
Paul Muolo
Carrington President Ray Brousseau said the nonbank is committed to the underserved borrower market…
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Short Takes: loanDepot CEO: Nothing but Blue Skies for Loan Officers / It’s Not Cancelled Until It’s Cancelled / An Op-Ed Counterweight / A Pile of Coal for Stocks / Second LP Analogies / Don’t Look at the Dow / A New CEO for PRMI

December 20, 2018
Paul Muolo
Hindes’ piece is entitled “Fannie and Freddie didn’t get a bailout. It was a stick-up.”
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