Short Takes: Okay, Maybe Trump Can Fire Cordray / Relying on the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel / It all Started with PHH / New Turf for WVA Brokerage Firm / Distressed Mortgage Deal December 28, 2016 Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo The Mortgage Center, a West Virginia-based loan brokerage firm managed by Marc Savitt, plans to open new offices in Florida and New Mexico early next year…Read More
DB and Credit Suisse Settle Legacy MBS Cases with DOJ; Barclays Faces New Lawsuit December 27, 2016 Brandon Ivey Subprime MBS cases continue to haunt Wall Street…Read More
Share of Loans that Close on Time Increasing December 27, 2016 Brandon Ivey Other loan types also generally showed improved closing times.Read More
Broker Market Share of Jumbo Production Slips in 3Q16 December 22, 2016 Brandon Ivey The retail channel accounted for 91.7 percent of Wells Fargo’s jumbo production during the first nine months of 2016…Read More
Freddie Issues its First CRT Securitization Backed by Seasoned Mortgages December 22, 2016 Brandon Ivey The mortgages in the CRT deal have seasoned for an average of 10 years and are serviced by Select Portfolio Servicing.Read More
OCC Warns of Credit Risk as Banks Loosen Underwriting Standards for Mortgages December 21, 2016 Brandon Ivey The OCC’s study covers 85 banks that originate first-lien mortgages…Read More
Fitch Assigns Subprime Servicer Rating to Citadel. Could a ‘Rated’ Nonprime MBS Deal be Next? December 21, 2016 Brandon Ivey The company doesn’t outsource or offshore any of its servicing activities.Read More
Interest-Only Originations Falter (For Some) in 3Q16 December 20, 2016 Brandon Ivey After PHH Mortgage, the other top IO producers in 3Q16 were JPMorgan Chase, First Republic Bank, MUFG Union Bank, and Citibank. Read More
AMC Dominates Third-Party Due Diligence Completed on Non-Agency MBS December 20, 2016 Brandon Ivey Fitch said AMC’s market share of due diligence on non-agency MBS was boosted by the acquisition of JCIII & Associates a year ago.Read More
The NYCB-Astoria Financial Merger is Kaput December 20, 2016 Brandon Ivey Consumer advocates were among the groups that opposed NYCB’s acquisition of Astoria…Read More