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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: Sen. Warren Will Block CFPB Nominee / Midwestern Humility / Yet More Regulations Proposed for Home Servicers / If Maxine Waters Becomes Chairman… / The GSEs, More Dominant Than Ever?

June 19, 2018
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Now Donald Trump wants her to run the CFPB. I will put a hold on her nomination – and fight it at every step – until she turns over all documents..."
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NMIC: Outlook for Housing Market No Longer Positive

June 19, 2018
Brandon Ivey
It’s the first time since 2010 that the insurance firm has not forecast a positive outlook...
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Short Takes: CFPB Nominee’s LinkedIn Profile / Kraninger is a Radical Pick for Trump – She’s a Career Bureaucrat / The Thumb’s Up from Hensarling / FTC Action Against CoreLogic / A SC Branch for Mortgage Network

June 18, 2018
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
Rep. Jeb Hensarling: "I’m confident that, under Kathy’s leadership, gone are the days of wasting more than $240 million of taxpayer money to renovate a building it doesn’t even own and paying staff to perform research that has nothing to do with the Bureau’s mission..."
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Flagstar Increases Due Diligence Sample Size with Latest Prime Non-Agency MBS

June 15, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Some rating services have concerns that a 20.0 percent due diligence sample rate is too low…
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No Longer No. 1 in Retail, Wells Fargo Plots Growth in Mortgages

June 14, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Quicken Loans surpassed Wells as the top retail lender in the first quarter of 2018, according to Inside Mortgage Finance.
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HomeStreet Reducing Mortgage Staff by 10 Percent Due to Low Demand for Purchase Loans

June 14, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Last October, HomeStreet cut 60 employees. In May, it put out for bid $5 billion of mortgage servicing rights….
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Merrill Lynch Faulted by SEC for Non-Agency MBS Trading Practices from 2009 through 2012

June 13, 2018
Brandon Ivey
In settling with the SEC, Merrill Lynch did not admit or deny the findings…
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Lenders Pessimistic About Profit Margins for 3Q18, Cuts to Staff Expected

June 12, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Fannie Mae: “We expect this will prompt businesses to turn to cost-cutting..."
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MBS and ABS Issuers Taking Steps to Address Move Away from LIBOR

June 11, 2018
Brandon Ivey
The banks that report rates that form the basis of LIBOR won’t be required to participate in the survey after 2021…
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So Much Home Equity, But Not Much Lending. Reason: Tight Underwriting

June 8, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Home equity outstanding hit a peak of $13.43 trillion in the first quarter of 2006 then tumbled during the financial crisis...
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