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      <title>Two Harbors Reserves Funds for Payment to Former Manager</title>
      <author>bivey@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Two Harbors booked a nearly $200 million contingency liability after a court ruled that the REIT improperly ended a contract with its one-time external manager.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:36:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>GSE Shareholder Suit Nears End — Maybe</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Plaintiffs in <em>Berkley Insurance v. FHFA </em>may finally receive a $612.4 million jury award granted in August 2023.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:45:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>EBO Investor Prevails in Lawsuit Against Mr. Cooper</title>
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        <![CDATA[An affiliate of Proprietary Capital won some significant rulings this week in a lawsuit against Mr. Cooper. The dispute involved early buyouts from Ginnie Mae MBS.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:56:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>A Sigh of Relief for Lender in Lawsuit Involving Underwriting </title>
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        <![CDATA[A foreclosure action against a borrower for alleged mortgage fraud landed a Florida-based lender in court for punitive damages.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:46:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>IRS Qualifies REMIC Exchange Certificates as Stripped Bonds</title>
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        <![CDATA[A new IRS private letter ruling outlined a case where exchange bond certificates from a REMIC or grantor trust would be considered a stripped bond under tax policy.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:22:26 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New York Court Ruling Impacts MBS Clean-Up Call Practices</title>
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        <![CDATA[In a case that could have far-reaching effects on MBS investors, a New York judge ordered a servicer to recalculate clean-up call termination prices to include deferred payments.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:40:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Another Delay for New Margining Requirements</title>
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        <![CDATA[FINRA said the implementation of the amended Rule 4210 can’t take place until the SEC formally rescinds a 2022 stay.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:40:45 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Grapevine: Credit Suisse Update; Pricing Improves for CRT</title>
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        <![CDATA[Credit Suisse completed the first part of the sale of its securitized products group; tighter pricing for Fannie with latest CRT offering; SEC’s rating service report light on details; retrial in GSE shareholder case set for July; RMF’s planned securitization scuttled.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:50:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Grapevine: Ginnie’s Budget Increases; DOJ Turns Down IG Referral</title>
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        <![CDATA[Ginnie’s budget increases for FY 2023; Ginnie senior vice president found to have violated the Code of Federal Relations; Ginnie aligns eNote standards with GSEs; industry-driven FHA loss-mitigation proposals include some potential changes to Ginnie’s standards.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/226647</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:47:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Whistleblower Loses Appeal for Reward in MBS Case</title>
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        <![CDATA[A federal appeals court panel ruled that the SEC didn’t act on the whistleblower’s information about misconduct at RBS even though it passed the information to the DOJ and FHFA, which reached settlements.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:32:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Former Nomura MBS Trader Found Not Liable for Fraud</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged James Im, a former bond trader for Nomura Holdings, with fraud for inflating the prices of MBS he bought from and sold to investors.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 17:27:36 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Credit Suisse Wins Legacy MBS Lawsuit on Technicality</title>
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        <![CDATA[Failure to submit a timely and specific repurchase demand involving pre-2008 non-agency MBS doomed a U.S. Bank lawsuit.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/224119</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:25:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>SCOTUS Ruling Upends Leadership at FHFA</title>
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        <![CDATA[The White House responded quickly to SCOTUS’ Wednesday ruling that the FHFA director can be fired at will. Within hours, Mark Calabria was shown the door and Sandra Thompson was appointed acting chief.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Not Happening: Fannie and Freddie Out of Conservatorship by Jan. 20</title>
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        <![CDATA[As the clock winds down on the Trump White House, the GSE regulator continues to pull levers. Just not the big one. Credit: Steve Mnuchin.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>LIBOR’s End May be Delayed. Legacy Contracts Hang in the Balance</title>
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        <![CDATA[The use of LIBOR as an index is slated to end in just under 13 months but the benchmark administrator has other ideas. One issue: legacy contracts.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/219926</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Fannie Mae Finds Some Erroneous MBS Prepayments</title>
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        <![CDATA[The enterprise said 544 loans from uniform MBS pools and 677 loans from mega/super pools were erroneously liquidated due to a servicer’s error. Investors in the securities have the option to pursue claims.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/219654</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:15:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>FHFA Getting Ready to Finalize GSE Capital Rule?</title>
      <author>dhollier@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[FHFA Director Mark Calabria hopes to finalize the GSE capital rule before yearend. But the proposal is so controversial that many industry watchers said it most likely won’t survive a change in administration.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/219471</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Ginnie Mae PTAP Funding a Bit Light at $3M</title>
      <author>pmuolo@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Nonbank Ginnie Mae issuers increased their borrowings under the PTAP program in May but not significantly. Next up: FHA’s forbearance policy on loans in progress. 
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/218164</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Court of Claims Rulings Mixed in GSE Shareholder Cases </title>
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        <![CDATA[Less than a week after dismissing the Arrowood case, Judge Margaret Sweeney released a previously sealed different decision in a related case.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/218101</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>State AGs Urge OCC to Drop Madden Preemption Proposal</title>
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        <![CDATA[A coalition of state AGs and Hawaii’s Office of Consumer Protection urged the OCC to withdraw a proposed rule that would confer federal preemption privileges on unregulated nonbanks.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/217021</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Court Denies UBS Motion to Dismiss DOJ’s Legacy MBS Suit</title>
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        <![CDATA[A U.S. District Court has denied the Swiss bank’s motion to dismiss a legacy MBS lawsuit filed by the government last year.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/216698</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:20:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Banks Settle Antitrust Litigation Over GSE Bonds</title>
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        <![CDATA[Thirteen major financial institutions have agreed to pay a combined $337 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit accusing their trading desks of engaging in a price-fixing scheme for Fannie and Freddie debt.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/216685</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2019 09:27:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>MBS Grapevine: Can It Be? A GSE Settlement?</title>
      <author>pmuolo@imfpubs.com</author>
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        <![CDATA[Are settlement talks heating up between GSE shareholders and Uncle Sam? Hard to say, but at least the housing-finance train is on the move.]]>
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      <guid>http://www.insidemortgagefinance.com/articles/216133</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:27:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Fannie Aggregator </title>
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        <![CDATA[A panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling earlier this month, said a reseller of mortgages can demand that an originator repurchase defective loans, even though the contract between the two companies did not specify a timeframe within which the originator had to cure any defects. The decision reversed a lower court’s ruling.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Class Action Filed Against GSE-Approved Dealers</title>
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        <![CDATA[In a class action lawsuit filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a group of institutional investors allege that several Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-approved dealers colluded in a systematic scheme to manipulate prices in the secondary market for agency debt.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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