Widespread industry adoption of electronic promissory notes presents challenges but has steadily gained momentum over time as various aggregators sign on, and one is paying up for certain downpayment assistance loans using them. Western Alliance’s Amerihome, the largest bank-owned correspondent investor in the mortgage business, recently got on board with e-notes. Also Click n’ Close, […]
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The market for mortgage servicing rights has some unusual dynamics, one panelist at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Secondary and Capital Markets Conference said Monday. “It used to be that the bulk market wouldn’t even be attractive on an execution level if there was a billion or more. Now you’re seeing very small trades of a
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While some policymakers have long pushed to release Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from government conservatorship, experts caution that a return to full privatization would be far from a fairy tale. Panelists Tuesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Secondary & Capital Markets Conference weighed the many downsides of the complicated, and increasingly unlikely move if
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Dan Thompson, chief executive of mortgage servicing management firm PMSI, numbers among industry veterans who managed mortgages during and prior to the Great Financial Crisis, so he’s seen worst-case scenarios and worked to help the industry avoid them since. The instances where exceptions from common servicing procedures were used averaged around 1% in 2024, which
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Bill Pulte, director of what has been known as the Federal Housing Finance Agency, shed light on certain plans he has for the government-sponsored enterprises during an appearance at an industry event on Monday, but deferred to President Trump on a conservatorship exit. Pulte told attendees at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s secondary market conference in
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Ginnie Mae’s operations chief told the industry Monday he is pursuing data improvements and revisiting several industry suggestions for innovations that could improve operations. When asked about concepts the Mortgage Bankers Association has recommended exploring such as creating a securitization vehicle for early buyout loans, Chief Operating Officer Joseph Gormley said Ginnie is “taking a
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The Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest forecast for 2025 expects volume to be slightly lower than previously thought, with a 14% increase in the number of units produced. Mike Fratantoni, the group’s chief economist speaking at its Secondary & Capital Markets Conference in New York on Monday, recounted discussions he had in recent days with people
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Investors face yet another bumpy start to the trading week, although it’s mounting concern over US debt rather than tariffs likely generating the volatility this time. Financial markets reopen in Asia on Monday after Moody’s Ratings announced Friday evening it was stripping the US government of its top credit rating, dropping the country to Aa1
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US states from Florida to North Carolina and Texas would likely hold onto top-notch credit scores from Moody’s Ratings, mostly because they’re in better fiscal shape than the federal government itself. More than a dozen states have pristine triple-A ratings from Moody’s, according to Bloomberg-compiled data, ranking them higher than the US government, which was stripped of
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