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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: What Will Ben Carson Cut? / GSE DTI Ratios Too High? / A Woman May Head the FHFA / Nomura Settles with DOJ / Strong Earnings from MGIC / Needed: Some CFPB Guidance

October 17, 2018
Paul Muolo, Brandon Ivey, and Yemeng Yang
Budget cuts coming to HUD?
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Flagstar Readies Non-Agency MBS Stocked with GSE-Eligible Loans for Investment Properties

October 16, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Some 78 percent of the loans are GSE-eligible mortgages for investment properties…
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Mortgage Venture Partners Plans to Buy Nonagency Loans with an Eye Toward Securitization

October 12, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Mortgage Venture Partners is also working on a non-qualified mortgage jumbo second lien product…
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Quicken Loosens Underwriting on Jumbos

October 12, 2018
Brandon Ivey
For jumbo cash-out refis, Quicken is now allowing for combined loan-to-value ratios up to 80.0 percent on loan balances up to $1.0 million.
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Roughly 26 Percent of Home Lenders are Using AI, Machine Learning

October 11, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Use of artificial intelligence seems to be concentrated at nonbanks…
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Short Takes: Why Stocks Need to Come Down / Unwinding the Massive Tax Cuts / President Hickenlooper? / Capital Alpha Weighs In / Behind the Scenes at Wells Fargo / New Hires for DIMONT

October 11, 2018
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
The massive tax cuts the president and GOP bestowed on the nation late last year have spurred economic progress. It’s hard to argue with that, but...
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GSEs on Track to Start Issuing Single Security in June, Additional Guidance Pending…

October 10, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Stephanie Miller of Fannie Mae said the GSEs are working with SIFMA on the transition to the single security.
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Wells Fargo is Back! Megabank Launches First Post-Crisis Non-Agency MBS

October 10, 2018
Brandon Ivey
New nonagency deals are pending from loanDepot and New Residential as well…
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Short Takes: Michael Bright, the Next FHFA Director? / Waiting on Senate Confirmation (Still) / A Former GSE Exec and The Play Set Scandal / Sears and Fairholme / HSBC Settles with DOJ / A New Hire at CMG Financial

October 10, 2018
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
HSBC will pay $765 million to settle charges brought by the Department of Justice...
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DBRS: Losses on Non-QM MBS are Rare, Investors Feel Protected

October 9, 2018
Brandon Ivey
Despite the good news, DBRS said if the economic environment becomes more distressed, some non-QM borrowers may come under pressure…
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