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Paul Muolo

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Short Takes: Some Landmines for PHH? / Lots of Cash, At Least /A Little More on Kroll and TRID / Will the CFPB be Forced to Issue Official TRID Guidance? / TRID Webinar a Bust? / PrimeLending in New JV

April 14, 2016
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
Although there hasn’t been a lot of good news on PHH of late, one analyst we spoke with noted a positive: “They still have plenty of cash on their books…”
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Are the GSEs Buying Mortgages That Really Aren’t TRID Compliant? Does it Matter?

April 14, 2016
Paul Muolo
The source continued: “Fannie and Freddie have the right to put non-compliant loans back to the originator. Eventually, someone will ask whether they knowingly bought loans that had TRID violations…"
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Short Takes: Jamie Dimon Feels Their Pain / JPM Wants to Give Its Delinquent Servicing to the GSEs / About All Those Mortgage Regs… / A New HR Chief for Stonegate Mortgage

April 13, 2016
Paul Muolo
If Jamie Dimon really cares about the pain suffered by his customers, he may want to keep his default management servicing inhouse…
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Residential Originations Down 9.3 Percent at JPM in 1Q16 as Megabank’s CEO Laments the Mortgage Business

April 13, 2016
Paul Muolo
Maybe one of these days JPM will exit mortgages entirely. But for now, Jamie Dimon is staying put...
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Mortgage Servicing Auctions Come Fast and Furious Amid Declining Rates

April 13, 2016
Paul Muolo
“I would say that [MSR] prices are reasonable now,” said one advisor who spoke under the condition his name not be used. “The bid/ask spread has come down a little bit.”
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Four More Nonbanks May Fail Because of TRID?

April 12, 2016
Paul Muolo
As IMFnews reported recently: one nonbank lender had a $910,000 jumbo mortgage rejected by a secondary market buyer because of a $19 TRID-related mistake on the disclosure form.
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LenderLive Quits the Due Diligence Business

April 12, 2016
Paul Muolo
Seehausen stressed that due diligence reviews never became a big part of the company’s product offerings...
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Short Takes: Share Price of Fannie and Freddie Spikes. Here’s Why… / Does Bernie Sanders Know About This? / Salaries Revealed at Stonegate Mortgage / Silver Hill Rolls Out New Multifamily Loan / Foreclosure Fall – Again

April 12, 2016
Paul Muolo
Fannie's CFO McFarland made her disclosure around the same time the U.S. Treasury changed the terms of the GSE bailout...
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Monday Morning Shocker: Merrill Lynch Tells PHH to Take a Hike on Private Label Originations – and Servicing

April 11, 2016
Paul Muolo
Big trouble for PHH? Its stock is getting clocked.
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Wells Fargo Settles FHA Claims for $1.2 Billion; Who’s Next?

April 11, 2016
Paul Muolo
As recently as this past summer, there was talk in the industry that Wells Fargo might counter-sue the government...
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