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April 19, 2018

Nonbanks Gobble Up More of the Agency Servicing Market in Early 2018; Growth Spurts at Ginnie Mae

The steamship that is the nonbank share of the mortgage servicing market showed no signs of changing course in the early months of 2018, a...

April 19, 2018

Does MB Financial Exit Signal a Shift Toward Industrywide ‘Go Big or Go Home’ Mentality?

Midwest banking giant MB Financial shocked the mortgage market late last week with its decision to exit national lending, citing tight...

April 19, 2018

M&A Market for Mortgage Service Providers Begins Heating Up – With No End in Sight

Not only are several mortgage banking firms exploring sale opportunities these days, but dozens of vendors that serve the industry either...

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April 20, 2018

Aging Housing Stock Increases Demand for VA Alteration Loans

Lenders will now be able make VA loans to veterans who wish to purchase or refinance a home that needs alteration or repair, under new...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending

April 16, 2018

CFPB and OCC Seek $1 Billion Settlement From Wells Fargo

The CFPB and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are seeking an aggregate of $1 billion from Wells Fargo to settle abuse allegations...... from Inside the CFPB

April 13, 2018

MBA: Earnings Tanked in Fourth Quarter

Mortgage bankers reported a significant decline in profitability during the fourth quarter of 2017, taking hits on both sides of the business...... from Inside Mortgage Trends

April 13, 2018

Fannie Looks to Introduce New Features to Servicing Marketplace

The Servicing Marketplace launched last year by Fannie Mae has had a good response so far. It was created to connect servicers and sellers...... from Inside The GSEs

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April 20, 2018

Non-Mortgage ABS Roars Out of the Starting Gate In Early 2018 as Issuance Sets Post-Crash High

Production of new non-mortgage ABS soared in the first three months of 2018, pushing the market to its strongest quarter since the...

April 20, 2018

New Issuers Enter Prime Non-Agency MBS Market as Volume Increases Along with Demand from Investors

Since the start of 2018, two new firms have issued prime non-agency MBS and a third player looks set to rejoin the sector. Issuers expect...

April 20, 2018

DBRS Sees Potential Growth in Film-Rights Securitization, Updates Ratings Methods

The securitization of film rights is a growing market, a wide-open frontier that could be the proverbial mother lode for daring investors...

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April 20, 2018

Ginnie Mae Mulls ‘A-Tier’ Issuer Rating to Raise Nonbank Liquidity

Ginnie Mae is considering a tiered rating system to ensure that all participants in its mortgage securities program have sufficient liquidity...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending

March 30, 2018

Uniform MBS Implementation Now Set for June 2019

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced plans to officially launch the “common” uniform mortgage-backed security collateralized by Fannie...... from Inside The GSEs

January 19, 2018

Mortgage Industry Sees Promise in Blockchain

Distributed ledger technology known as blockchain has the potential to transform back-end functions in mortgage origination, servicing and...... from Inside Mortgage Trends

October 5, 2017

Nonbank Participants in the MSR Market Strive for Liquidity, Changes to Fannie’s Acknowledgement Agreement Likely

Nonbanks lack the deposit base banks have to support their investments in mortgage servicing rights, but nonbanks are seeing increased...... from Inside Mortgage Finance

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April 13, 2018

Early 2018 Brings More Volatility To GSE Single-Family Rivalry

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had wildly different experiences in the first quarter of 2018, a period when both firms saw declining...

April 13, 2018

House Hearing Reveals Flaws in FHFA Oversight of Fannie, Freddie

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s supervision and guidance of the GSEs lacks the rigor shown by other federal financial regulators,...

April 13, 2018

Fannie’s New Headquarters Continues to Prompt Questions

Fannie Mae’s new headquarters in downtown Washington, DC, continues to be a bone of contention for some, but the GSE said the project is on...

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April 19, 2018

Nonbanks Gobble Up More of the Agency Servicing Market in Early 2018; Growth Spurts at Ginnie Mae

The steamship that is the nonbank share of the mortgage servicing market showed no signs of changing course in the early months of 2018, a new...... from Inside Mortgage Finance

April 13, 2018

Agency MBS Issuance Tumbled in 1Q18; Purchase Market Up Slightly from 2017

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae posted a two-year low in new single-family business during the first quarter of 2018, according to a...... from Inside Mortgage Trends

April 6, 2018

GNMA Chief Confident Agency Will Win Back Investors’ Faith, Trust

Ginnie Mae’s anti-churning efforts have narrowed the spread between Ginnie and Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities, prompting executives to...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending

April 6, 2018

Chase Piles Conforming Loans in Non-Agency MBS

JPMorgan Chase is preparing to issue a non-agency mortgage-backed security stocked entirely with loans eligible for sale to the...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets

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April 16, 2018

States Set to Fill the CFPB Vacuum to Protect Consumers

States are dedicating more resources for consumer protection in financial services to fill the vacuum of a potentially less aggressive...

April 16, 2018

Mulvaney Before Congress: the GOP Loves Him, the Dems Do Not

The nature of the CFPB is completely in the eyes of the beholder. In hearings on Capitol Hill last week, Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney...

April 16, 2018

Mulvaney Gives Pay Raises to Political Appointees

Staffers hired by Acting Director Mick Mulvaney saw major pay raises from their previous employment. The agency chief also asked Congress...

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April 20, 2018

VA’s Loan Guaranty Chief Says Anti-Churning Rule Under Review

The Department of Veterans Affairs has drafted a proposed rule to curb predatory loan churning. The draft rule is “well on its way through...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending

April 13, 2018

FHFA OIG Issues Heavily Redacted Report on GSE Cybersecurity

The Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General said the FHFA did not make sure that Freddie Mac’s plans to address...... from Inside The GSEs

April 12, 2018

VA Sends Anti-Churning Rule to OMB, Weighs Risk Sharing, Develops AUS

The Department of Veterans Affairs is close to issuing a final anti-churning rule to better protect veterans from predatory lending practices...... from Inside Mortgage Finance

March 16, 2018

Investors See Mixed Results After Pushing MBS and ABS Issuers to Increase Disclosures; SEC Action Still Pending

Efforts to enhance disclosures on MBS and ABS in recent years have generated mixed results, according to industry participants. Inadequate...... from Inside MBS & ABS

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April 13, 2018

Agency MBS Issuance Tumbled in 1Q18; Purchase Market Up Slightly from 2017

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae posted a two-year low in new single-family business during the first quarter of 2018, according to a...

April 13, 2018

MBA: Earnings Tanked in Fourth Quarter

Mortgage bankers reported a significant decline in profitability during the fourth quarter of 2017, taking hits on both sides of the...

April 13, 2018

Mortgage Industry Sees Promise in Blockchain

Announcements involving mortgage industry participants and blockchain are coming fast and furious, with many predicting that the...

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April 20, 2018

VA Pulls Disclosure Requirement From Earlier IRRRL Guidance

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently withdrew a directive that was part of an early disclosure requirement for Interest Rate Reduction...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending

April 20, 2018

Stearns Holdings Offers to Buy Back Short-Term Debt, But the Terms are Sketchy

Stearns Holdings LLC has sent out notices to investors that snatched up $250 million worth of short-term debt that it would like to buy back...... from Inside MBS & ABS

April 6, 2018

ARMs Gain Market Share in 2017, Volume Flat

The adjustable-rate mortgage share of total first-lien originations increased in 2017, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside...... from Inside Nonconforming Markets

February 22, 2018

Stearns’ Latest Asset Sale Raises Questions About its Future. What’s The Blackstone Group Thinking?

Over the past 12 months, Stearns Lending has jettisoned its delegated correspondent lending platform and recently sold most of its $23.2...... from Inside Mortgage Finance

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April 20, 2018

VA Share in Gov’t-Backed Servicing Continued to Grow in Early 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-loan guaranty program continued to account for most of the growth in the Ginnie Mae servicing...

April 20, 2018

VA’s Loan Guaranty Chief Says Anti-Churning Rule Under Review

The Department of Veterans Affairs has drafted a proposed rule to curb predatory loan churning. The draft rule is “well on its way through...

April 20, 2018

VA Announces Effort to Convert VALERI to Fully Operational AUS

A general overhaul of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Loan Electronic Reporting Interface is underway to convert it into a full...

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April 5, 2018

Private Credit-Risk Enhancers Express Interest In Ginnie Mae’s Risk-Sharing Project with FHA

There is a lot of interest in Ginnie Mae’s proposed credit-risk transfer pilot with FHA that’s scheduled for later this year, according to the...... from Inside Mortgage Finance

February 5, 2018

Service Member Mortgage Complaints Drifting Higher

Complaints by active-duty and retired U.S. military personnel about their mortgages rose in many categories tracked, both on a quarterly basis...... from Inside the CFPB

August 11, 2017

Low-Downpayment Lending Continues to Expand

Low-downpayment lending is the highest it’s been in almost seven years as the purchase market keeps growing, according to new data from Black...... from Inside Mortgage Trends

March 20, 2015

MBS Market Inched Higher in 4Q14, Agency Sector Growing Steadily

Steady growth in the outstanding supply of agency single-family MBS offset the ongoing decline in non-agency MBS in the fourth quarter of...... from Inside MBS & ABS

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April 20, 2018

Jumbo MBS Underwriting Holds Steady, Banks Remain Top Contributors in 1Q18

Issuance of prime jumbo mortgage-backed securities is on the rise but underwriting standards for loans in the deals aren’t changing much,...

April 20, 2018

Chimera, Chase, Redwood Plan New MBS

Chimera Investment, JPMorgan Chase and Redwood Trust plan to issue new prime non-agency mortgage-backed securities in the coming weeks,...

April 20, 2018

Mixed Views on Flagstar’s Due Diligence Sampling

Full third-party due diligence reviews were completed on only 20.0 percent of the loans being pooled by Flagstar Bank into a new non-agency...

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June 3, 2016

Rumblings of Possible Activity in Nonagency (Nonprime) Securitization. A Bond Backed by ‘Fix & Flip’ Loans?

The nonagency, nonprime MBS market continues to generate plenty of interest among mortgage professionals, but the number of securities being...... from Inside MBS & ABS

February 11, 2016

Fitch Ratings Warns Rising Home Prices In Some States May Not Be Sustainable

While home price gains across the U.S. are fairly sustainable, some metropolitan areas where jumbo loan underwriting standards are considered...... from Inside Mortgage Finance

January 23, 2015

Streamlined FHA Refinances Increase in 3Q14

Streamlined FHA refinance volume increased slightly in the third quarter of 2014 as incentives put in place in 2013 continued to attract FHA...... from Inside FHA/VA Lending

May 30, 2014

Purchase Originations Expected to Decline in 2014

The mortgage market’s shift from a focus on refinances to purchase mortgages won’t be enough to prompt an increase in purchase-mortgage...... from Inside Mortgage Trends

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December 14, 2017

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