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John Bancroft

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A Post-Crisis High for Non-Agency MBS Issuance: $20.7B for 2Q18

July 20, 2018
John Bancroft
Slightly over half were deals backed by newly originated mortgages…
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Strong Purchase Market in 2Q18 Buoys Mortgage Insurance Firms

July 19, 2018
John Bancroft
FHA officials have fretted about rising DTI ratios for some time…
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Short Takes: A Change of (Jumbo) Heart at Wells Fargo / An Anti GSE ‘Intifada’? / Looking the Other Way on Charter Creep? / DeMarco for FHFA Director? / Production Official Bolts Movement Mortgage for Union Bank / Correction

July 16, 2018
John Bancroft, Brandon Ivey, and Paul Muolo
Capital Alpha said its choice to be the next FHFA director is Ed DeMarco, who held the job once before...
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Mixed Trends for Residential MBS Issuance Halfway Through 2018

July 13, 2018
John Bancroft
Some $315.95 billion of single-family MBS was issued in the second quarter, up 8.2 percent from the previous quarter, according to Inside MBS & ABS.
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GSE Single-Family Business Up Modestly in 2Q18 as Purchase Market Kicks In

July 12, 2018
John Bancroft
All of the growth in GSE volume came from the purchase-mortgage side of the business…
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Agencies Leaning More on the ‘QM Patch’

July 9, 2018
John Bancroft
The share of high-DTI loans has continued to go up this year…
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Purchase Market Springs to Life in 2Q18, Freddie Regains Market Share

July 9, 2018
John Bancroft
The net result was a strong gain in Freddie’s share of the GSE market…
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DBRS Tops in Rating Non-Agency MBS

July 5, 2018
John Bancroft
Kroll Bond Rating Service moved up from fourth place in 2017 to start this year in second…
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Nonbanks Increasingly Taking Over Agency MBS Production

June 29, 2018
John Bancroft
The tally: nonbanks grew their GSE business by 1.5 percent during the first five months of the year. Banks retrenched by 16.2 percent…
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More Pain, No Gain for Nation’s Largest Home Lenders

June 28, 2018
John Bancroft
With loan production hitting a wall at the megabanks, layoffs are likely to ensue...
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