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Inside Mortgage Trends

November 16, 2012

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Record Earnings on Production, Secondary Marketing Offset Softer Servicing Income

Mortgage bankers posted record profits on their loan origination and secondary market activity during the third quarter of 2012, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of earnings reports from a diverse group of 10 lenders. The group, which included the four biggest lenders in the industry and eight of the top 20, reported a combined $5.344 billion in net production income during the third quarter, a record for the group. Production and secondary marketing income ... [Includes one data chart] Read More

FDIC Files Lawsuit Against Colonial’s Auditors

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. recently filed a lawsuit against the auditors of Colonial Bank alleging that they could have prevented “enormous losses” suffered by the bank due to fraud by Colonial’s largest mortgage banking customer, Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage. The lawsuit is the first by the FDIC post-crisis against the accountants of a failed bank. Colonial was closed in August 2009 by the Alabama State Banking Department and the FDIC was named as receiver and is now ... Read More

REITs Look Beyond Vintage Non-Agency MBS

Two Harbors Investment and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust have seen healthy returns on their previous investments in vintage non-agency mortgage-backed securities but the real estate investment trusts have recently turned to other investments. Two Harbors has concentrated on agency MBS purchases while slowly ramping up jumbo loan purchases with an eye toward issuing its own MBS. PennyMac, meanwhile, shifted away from non-agency MBS purchases to correspondent lending and investing in ... Read More

Small Banks Need Own Rules, Fed Gov. Says

Community mortgage lenders increasingly anxious about complying with a growing regulatory burden got a strong show of support recently when Federal Reserve Board Governor Elizabeth Duke called for giving them a separate oversight regime that respects their unique differences when compared to their much larger competitors. “I am convinced that the best course for policymakers would be to abandon efforts for a one-size-fits-all approach to mortgage lending,” Duke said during a community bank symposium ... Read More

Study: Encompass360 is the Best A-to-Z Solution

A commissioned study of Ellie Mae’s Encompass360 has confirmed what the company’s clients have been saying all along: the popular software helps lower the total cost of originating mortgage loans. According to the study conducted by Forrester Consulting, a global research and advisory firm in Cambridge, MA, users of Encompass360 realized benefits in improved compliance and greater efficiency as well as a 57 percent return-on-investment (ROI) based on a three-year, risk-adjusted cash flow. Improved ... Read More

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