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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: CIT Will Take Hefty Hit on Sale of Financial Freedom / OneWest’s Roots / Fannie and Freddie Affected by Deloitte Hack? / ALTA Unveils Registry / A New Hire for Platinum

October 10, 2017
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
CIT Group will take a charge of up to $50 million on the sale of Financial Freedom...
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Demand for RPLs Strong; Chimera Issues First Deal, MetLife is Ready

October 6, 2017
Brandon Ivey
MetLife said a number of new investors have started buying RPLs in recent years. And even with the strong demand, it’s still a market that offers relatively attractive returns…
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Treasury Answers Trump’s Call on Looser Regs, Floats Ideas for MBS and ABS Markets

October 6, 2017
Brandon Ivey
The capital and liquidity requirements targeted by Treasury were largely established by the Basel III accords and the Dodd-Frank Act…
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Trouble in IO Land? 1H17 Production Down Almost 20 Percent

October 4, 2017
Brandon Ivey
First Republic Bank originated $1.90 billion of IOs in the second quarter of 2017, ranking first nationwide.
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A Coming Boom for Non-Agency MBS? New Deals are Oversubscribed

October 4, 2017
Brandon Ivey
Kroll Bond Rating Agency projects that about $11.0 billion of prime non-agency MBS will be issued this year…
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Lenders Defend Bank-Statement Mortgages

October 3, 2017
Brandon Ivey
“Today we can definitely say we know everything about that borrower,” said Steven Schwalb of Angel Oak…
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HomeStreet Scales Back Mortgage Operations, Cites Lack of Housing Supply on West Coast

October 3, 2017
Brandon Ivey
HomeStreet will reduce its mortgage banking staff by 60 full-time equivalent employees...
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Surprise (Or Maybe Not): ARM Originations Up Sharply in Second Quarter

October 2, 2017
Brandon Ivey
LoanDepot more than doubled its ARM originations in that span, and large increases were also seen at Wells Fargo, Bank of America Home Loans, First Republic Bank and MUFG…
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Chimera Readies its First Rated MBS Backed by RPLs After Issuing 16 Unrated Deals

October 2, 2017
Brandon Ivey
The MBS is backed by 3,548 mortgages that have seasoned for more than 11 years, on average.
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If There’s Hope for Financial Reform, It Rests with the Regulators

September 29, 2017
Brandon Ivey
“Expectations have had to be reset post-election,” said Ryan Schoen, a senior financial services analyst at Washington Analysis.
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