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Brandon Ivey

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Lending Home Claims to be the Largest ‘Marketplace’ Lender in Mortgages

April 11, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Marketplace lenders connect borrowers with institutional and individual investors while eschewing traditional warehouse lines of credit...
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Fifth Third’s HELOC Deal: a 1.99 Percent Start Rate; High FICOs Though

April 11, 2016
Brandon Ivey
The bank offers HELOC line amounts up to $500,000 and a maximum loan-to-value ratio of 70.0 percent.
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Short Takes: The ‘Banksters’ Aren’t Going to Jail But They Are Paying Through the Nose (Goldman Sachs) / CFPB Chief Cordray Tries to Clear the Air on TRID ‘Cures’ / Nation’s Largest Mortgage REIT to Buy Another / Two New Directors for Fannie Mae

April 11, 2016
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
Associate Attorney General Stuart Delery: “This resolution holds Goldman Sachs accountable for its serious misconduct..."
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New Study: Realtors Like the ‘Call Center’ Lending Model

April 8, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Of course, Quicken isn't the only lender that uses call centers to produce retail loans...
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PulteGroup CEO Set to Retire After Founder/Former Chairman Threatened ‘War’

April 6, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Pulte raised concerns about the way PulteGroup is being managed, including the relocation of the company’s headquarters from Detroit to Atlanta in 2013.
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Short Takes: Jumbo MBS Ugly in 1Q16 / More TRID Nightmare Talk / CSS is Hiring / Marketplace Mortgage Continue Expansion / New Hires for WFG

April 5, 2016
Paul Muolo and Brandon Ivey
CSS, a joint venture of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is hiring at its main site in Bethesda, MD, as well as its office in Pasadena, CA.
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Jumbo MBS Market Remains Attractive – For Some

April 4, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Redwood Trust, another REIT, hasn’t issued a jumbo MBS since November...
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96 Million Potential Mortgage Customers? (Hint: They’re Renters)

April 1, 2016
Brandon Ivey
The HFPC found that 63.8 million adults – 52 percent of renters in the country – don’t have a high enough credit score to qualify.
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Surprise: OCC Cuts Disclosures of Key Mortgage Servicing Data at Banks

April 1, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Fact: The Mortgage Metrics report for the third quarter of 2015 was 66 pages while the most recent issue was slashed to just 14 pages.
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Investors Warn the CFPB About the Chilling Effect of the TRID Rule; Troubles May Extend to the Conforming Market

March 31, 2016
Brandon Ivey
The AMI chief warned that at some point the GSEs may decide to review TRID documentation and penalize lenders who made even small clerical errors in the disclosures.
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