Bexil American Mortgage, a company headed by industry veteran John Robbins, finally revealed the name of the mortgage banking firm it agreed to buy a few weeks back: Castle Mortgage of Vestavia Hills, AL.
Before we get to the main event (the ‘Qualified Mortgage’ rule), it’s time to consider the improving fate of Fannie Mae, which is poised to have a few coming quarters of blow-out earnings – which will go directly into the coffers of the U.S. Treasury Department, much to the delight of the newly nominated secretary Jack Lew.
Industry veteran Jon Daurio, who’s trying to raise $250 million to start a new nonprime lender, is hoping to have much of the work tied to his capital raise completed by the end of the first quarter of 2013.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may reconsider certain regulatory exemptions to its servicing rules as they pertain to small servicers, agency counsel Mitchell Hochberg said during an Inside Mortgage Finance webinar late Tuesday afternoon.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN, a key member of the Senate Banking Committee, has secured a commitment from Acting FHA Commissioner Carol Galante to toughen agency rules to put the insurance fund on a sounder financial footing.
The Mortgage Bankers Association this week launched a new task force to study the future of the GSEs, naming 17 industry executives from residential finance-related firms both large and small. MBA president David Stevens told Inside Mortgage Finance that his goal to have the working group publish a final working paper on what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by mid-year 2013. “This task force is very inclusive of the industry,” said Stevens.…
New residential loan applications fell 12.3 percent for the week ending Dec. 14 with the reading on its refinancing index dropping to the lowest level in just over a month, according to new survey figures compiled by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The refi share of all new business fell to 83 percent from 84 percent the week prior. MBA vice president of research Mike Fratantoni blamed the decline on rates which rose during the second…
PHH Mortgage and an affiliate have renewed a $450 million warehouse line with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. for another year but reduced another facility it had with Barclays Bank PLC, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investors with nearly $1 trillion of holdings of non-agency mortgage-backed securities are concerned about the Obama administration’s latest loan modification proposal, according to Tom Deutsch, executive director of the American Securitization Forum.
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