Some $247.0 billion of subprime mortgages were outstanding at the end of the first quarter of 2017, according to estimates by Inside Nonconforming Markets.
TD Bank is by far the biggest bank investor in card ABS, and in ABS overall, but its $12.71 billion portfolio of card ABS was down some $702.6 million from December.
Commercial banks and thrifts continued to have modest interest in holding non-mortgage ABS during the first quarter of 2017, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis. The banking industry held $123.43 billion of ABS in its held-to-maturity and available-for-sale investment portfolios at the end of March. That was down 0.3 percent from December. The overall supply of ABS outstanding, excluding collateralized debt obligations, fell...[Includes two data tables]
Citadel Servicing Corp. and Angel Oak Companies – two of the most active nonprime lenders operating today – are looking at record originations for the second quarter and all of 2017. But don’t expect a torrent of conventional lenders to jump into the space anytime soon. According to interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Finance in recent weeks, there’s plenty of interest in the “new” subprime market, a business predicated on sober loan-to-value ratios and rigorous underwriting, but most conventional lenders do not see it as safe. At least not yet. “Right now, there’s...
In the lawsuit, Ocwen admitted that it had stopped paying some of the invoices sent to it by FIS because of what it called “improper and non-compliant billing practices…