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Paul Muolo

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Short Takes: FHFA Ignoring HERA? / A Refresher Course / How Fannie and Freddie Dismantled Legislative Bomb Threats / A Large RPL Auction from Fannie / OCC to Finally Weigh In on Fintech

June 14, 2018
Paul Muolo
It might be said that OFHEO was a weak federal regulator...
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Cut LO Pay

June 13, 2018
Paul Muolo
Aggressive nonbank lenders are willing to offer 100 to 200 basis points per loan…
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THL Closes on Investment in Guaranteed Rate. Nonbank Anticipates Record Production This Year

June 13, 2018
Paul Muolo
Despite heralding the investment made by Thomas H. Lee Partners, Guaranteed Rate will not say how much the PE firm invested or how large of a stake it acquired…
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Short Takes: Budget Cuts at the CFPB? / BCFP not CFPB / Sounding the Alarm on U.S. Debt / A Flow Servicing Platform Run by the GSEs / A New Hire for United Fidelity

June 13, 2018
Paul Muolo
Do federal deficits even matter anymore? Jeff Gundlach thinks so...
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Mortgage M&A Mania has Finally Arrived. Who’s Next?

June 12, 2018
Paul Muolo
Mark Stafford, managing director of MS Capital Advisors: “Margin compression is real and many companies lost money in the first quarter.”
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FHFA Proposes Minimum Capital Requirements for Fannie and Freddie. An RBC ‘Bill’ of $181 Billion

June 12, 2018
Paul Muolo
By comparison, commercial banks must have tier 1 capital of 8.0 percent of risk-weighted assets.
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Sierra Pacific Hires Ex-Stearns, Ex-Wells Executive Goulding

June 12, 2018
Paul Muolo
A 34-year veteran of the home lending industry, Goulding also worked for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage…
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Short Takes: No Relief in Sight for GSE Common / Pershing Square in a World of (GSE) Hurt? / JMP Likes Impac / Consumer Data Collection Returns to the CFPB / Plaza Home Promotes Fontaine

June 12, 2018
Paul Muolo and Yemeng Yang
JMP likes the higher profit margins that accompany non-QM lending…
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Cardinal Financial/Sebonic in Talks With Peoples Home Equity?

June 11, 2018
Paul Muolo
Earlier in the decade, Sebonic was started by former employees of RoundPoint Financial...
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Pittsburgh Bank Agrees to Sell its Consumer Finance Unit

June 11, 2018
Paul Muolo
Besides selling RFC, the publicly traded FNB is consolidating 20 of its branches in a cost cutting move.
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