Eminent domain may be a local matter, but in the context of seizing mortgages, its use would have national consequences, the four senators write in their letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
Just how big is Wells Fargo's Ginnie Mae market share? At Sept. 30, the bank controlled 31.53 percent of the market. Its closest competitor was JPMorgan Chase with a mere 11.75 percent.
The Alt A origination estimate is based on the volume of first-lien conventional mortgages with interest rates ranging from 150 basis points over the prime mortgage rate to 300 bps over.
The GSEs are beginning to take in a significant amount of money from R&W settlements, but both stand to reap an even larger windfall from a pending civil lawsuit filed by the FHFA against 17 issuers of private label MBS.
Meanwhile, the regulator Monday morning unveiled new master policy requirements for the MI industry, which will make it harder for insurance firms to get out paying claims on defaulted mortgages.
Standard & Poors recently published an updated estimate of likely losses stemming from mortgage-related litigation, finding that banks face future costs of $56.5 billion to $104 billion.
The CFPB has gone ahead and issued the last big piece to the mortgage finance puzzle it was mandated to manufacture by the Dodd-Frank Act, the integrated mortgage-disclosure rule under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Truth in Lending Act and related forms. The good news for the mortgage finance industry apart from the 20-month implementation period is that the new rule and forms, part of the bureaus know before you owe initiative, are not nearly as transformational towards the fundamental nature of the...