Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Secondary mortgage market waits for data, creates workarounds amid shift to alternative credit scores

Mortgage lenders are rolling out new credit scoring models, but in the secondary market, investors and credit rating agencies are awaiting additional performance data while developing workarounds to keep loans moving through the system. Susan Hosterman, senior director for North America RMBS and covered bonds at Fitch Ratings, said the company can currently rate securitizations […]

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Newfi integrates Prudent AI for non-QM income analysis

Newfi Lending has integrated Prudent AI’s income analysis engine into its broker portal, giving brokers near real-time calculations for non-QM loans and cutting bank-statement turn times from roughly 72 hours to as little as three, the companies announced Wednesday. The new IncomeIQ portal, built on Prudent AI’s technology, delivers institutional-grade income analysis directly to mortgage

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HECM broker rankings hold steady in March as Atlantic Avenue stays at No. 1

The country’s largest reverse mortgage brokerages based on February activity continued to set the pace in March across the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) space, according to endorsement data released Thursday by Reverse Market Insight (RMI) and published by HECMWorld.com. The top five brokerages by HECM endorsement count were unchanged during the year ending in

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