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Brandon Ivey

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Small Commercial Banks Quietly Amassing MSR Market Share

July 27, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Smaller depositories held 8.0 percent of the banking industry’s total mortgage servicing assets in 2015, up from a share of less than 2.0 percent as recently as 2009.
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Short Takes: Mortgage M&A Mania Finally Arrives? / Five Oaks Halts Jumbo Aggregation / Angel Oak Rolls Out Investor NI Product / Fannie Tweaks High-LTV Guidelines / Mountain States Lead the Way, Says Black Knight

July 27, 2016
Brandon Ivey, Macie Jones, and Paul Muolo
Nonprime lender Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions is now offering a “no-income” loan to investors with credit scores as low as 660...
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Thanks to ‘Brexit’ Vote and Resulting Refis, Origination Capacity is Strained, and Then Some

July 26, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Applications and refis are so robust that production "capacity" is now a major concern...
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Short Takes: Ginnie Mae MSR Demand: Deadly Slow? / FHFA IG Says Agency Shirking Its Duty / Summer Foreclosure Rates Looking Good (for Consumers) / Prepayment Speeds Spike / A New Hire at NCB

July 26, 2016
Carisa Chappell, Brandon Ivey, Paul Muolo, and Sherry Muolo
The IG accused the FHFA of shirking its responsibility to effectively examine Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
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Half of Outstanding Agency Mortgages Have Interest Rates Higher than 4.000%

July 22, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Wells Fargo handled 20.2 percent of the $841.42 million in agency mortgages outstanding at the end of the second quarter of 2016 that had interest rates between 4.510 percent and 5.000 percent.
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Lenders Prevail in Effort to Limit Liability on Data Submissions to State Regulators

July 22, 2016
Brandon Ivey
State regulators had removed a clause from previous forms which said information from the submitting lender was “to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.”
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Realtors Say Low-Downpayment Programs Readily Available

July 22, 2016
Brandon Ivey
“Most real estate agents say high loan-to-value ratio mortgages are readily available, especially for homebuyers with good credit,” said Tom Popik, research director for Campbell Surveys.
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With Threat of Servicing Moving Away from Ocwen, Altisource Works to Diversify

July 22, 2016
Brandon Ivey
With the possibility of investors transferring non-agency servicing rights away from Ocwen Financial, Altisource Portfolio Solution has put an emphasis on providing services to other companies.
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Short Takes: Impac Increases Originations / Low-Downpayment Program at Guaranteed Rate / Jumbo Reverse Mortgage Originations / Mortgage Fraud Trends

July 22, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Much of the increase in Impac Mortgage Holdings' originations was from the retail channel.
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Short Takes: Earnings Increase at Black Knight / GSE Reform Talk at RNC / FirstKey Preps Large MBS / Stonegate's Distributed Retail Hire

July 21, 2016
Carisa Chappell and Brandon Ivey
Black Knight Financial Services reported net earnings for the second quarter of 2016 of $11.40 million compared with net earnings of $0.30 million in the previous quarter.
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