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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: Heading for the Door / Down, Down, Down: Forbearance Ratios / AIG’s Jumbo MBS / Ex-Freddie Chief Adds a Title / Renaissance Hires New COO

April 6, 2021
Paul Muolo, Dennis Hollier, and Brandon Ivey

American International Group (once the property of the U.S. government) is preparing to issue a $426.4 million jumbo MBS...


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Several Groups Oppose Delay in Implementing New QM Standards

April 6, 2021
Brandon Ivey

The coalition includes the American Bankers Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Center for Responsible Lending...


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Origination Business Appears to Be at an Inflection Point

April 2, 2021
Brandon Ivey
With refi business expected to decline later this year, a number of shops are rethinking their hiring plans. Lenders are set to face margin compression, excess capacity and consolidation.
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Two Mortgage Tech Vendors Raise $31 Million in Funding

April 2, 2021
Brandon Ivey
Venture capital investors remain optimistic about the prospects for mortgage digitization, funneling $31 million to two technology vendors.
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Short Takes: The Falling Forbearance Rate… / Play Ball / A Warehouse Securitization / A New Entrant to Non-QM Lending / FoAM Buys Benji

April 2, 2021
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey

For the week ending March 30, the relief count dropped by 33,000 units. Key point: Forbearance starts fell to their lowest weekly volume (30,000) since the beginning of the pandemic…


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Regulatory Burden Ahead for Mortgage Servicers?

April 2, 2021
Brandon Ivey

Bottom line: A committee within the CSBS determined that "regulatory prudential standards enforceable by state regulators are warranted and advisable at this time.”


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Eyeing Higher Margins, Impac Returns to Non-QMs

April 1, 2021
Brandon Ivey

As recently as November, Impac Chairman and CEO George Mangiaracina said returns on loans eligible for sale to the government-sponsored enterprises were better than returns from non-QMs. However, this spring he indicated that market dynamics had changed.


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Short Takes: Quicken and the Ginnie EBO Arena / Plenty of Liquidity / UWM’s Role? / Getting Expensive / Former GSE Regulator Joins Redwood’s Board

March 31, 2021
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey

Meanwhile, one Ginnie EBO investor (not a servicer) said prices for such loans in the secondary market were getting expensive...


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Non-QM Performance Declines for Second Consecutive Month

March 31, 2021
Brandon Ivey

The impairment rate on securitized non-QMs increased by 40 basis points on a monthly basis to 11.1% at the end of February.


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Short Takes: No FHA MIP Cut in Near-Term / Regulators Investigating Eviction Practices / Jefferies Downsizes Warehouse Securitization / Angel Oak Commercial Expands to Wholesale / Regulators Looking into AI

March 30, 2021
Lisa Burden and Brandon Ivey

HUD has no plans in the near-term to adjust FHA mortgage insurance premiums.


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