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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: Nonbanks Dominate Credit Suisse Jumbo Deal / LLC Wins Freddie NPL Auction / When Will Fannie Sell Some NPLs? / Clayton Buys AVM Vendor / A Reserve Fund for GSE Profits?

March 30, 2015
Brandon Ivey and Carisa Chappell
So, how come Freddie has conducted a handful of NPL sales thus far and Fannie Mae has not?
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Another Cross to Bear for Jumbo MBS: Investors Like GSE Risk-Share Deals Better

March 27, 2015
Brandon Ivey
During 4Q14 Javelin Mortgage Investment sold all of its holdings of prime, fixed-rate, senior bonds from new-issue jumbo MBS – $119.6 million of non-agency product in total.
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Increasingly, Real Estate Agents are Warming Up to Call-Center Lenders

March 27, 2015
Brandon Ivey
Tom Popik, research director of Campbell Surveys, notes that the Quicken Loans’ call-center model can be an accepted alternative to local mortgage branches.
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CSBS Sets Nonbank Capital Minimum at $2.5 Mil; Guidelines Look a Lot Like FHFA’s

March 26, 2015
Brandon Ivey
For capital, the proposed baseline standard for all nonbanks would require a base net worth of $2.5 million...
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Impac’s Early Results with Non-QM Lending Weak, but Hope Springs Eternal

March 26, 2015
Brandon Ivey
Impac said it will originate more than $2.0 billion of all mortgages in 1Q15, almost double what it produced the previous quarter.
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Short Takes: Nationstar Hiring? / Ocwen for Sale? / Is it Safe for Nonbanks to Start Originating Seconds? / A Capital Break for MSRs? / Impac Posts Loss

March 26, 2015
Paul Muolo, Thomas Ressler, and Brandon Ivey
Is it possible that Ocwen will sell the entire company and not just all of its agency servicing rights?
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Nationstar Reveals More MSR Purchases, but Stock Gets Hit on News of Secondary Stock Offering

March 25, 2015
Brandon Ivey
How is Fortress feeling this morning? It owns 70 percent of Nationstar's common.
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Short Takes: Will SCOTUS Allow Underwater Seconds to be Dismissed? / And Now a Word from RoundPoint / GSE Conservatorships: Long, Strange Trip, Man / A GSE Bill Passing? Not Likely / More on Nationstar

March 25, 2015
Paul Muolo, Thomas Ressler, and Brandon Ivey
Although RoundPoint isn’t taking any questions regarding a possible sale of the company, it recently published a statement regarding its co-issuance and subservicing businesses.
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Is Walter the Next Ocwen? Green Tree Hit With Servicing Downgrades

March 24, 2015
Brandon Ivey
Fitch said the downgrade was tied to Green Tree’s “aggressive portfolio growth,” noting that the nonbank grew its MSR portfolio by almost three-fold over the past two years.
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Ocwen Dismisses Accusations from Non-Agency MBS Investors, Claims No Ongoing EoD

March 23, 2015
Brandon Ivey
In a letter sent Sunday to trustees of the MBS, Ocwen tried to rebut claims made in January by BlackRock, PIMCO, Metropolitan Life and others...
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