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Brandon Ivey

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Short Takes: Mortgage M&A Ready to Increase? / How AmeriPro Got Its Start / FNBA a Buyer of Non-QMs / Watt Defends His Call on the FHLBs / Hunton & Williams Names New Partner

June 6, 2016
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
Meanwhile, David Lykken of Transformational Mortgage Solutions told us he was the consultant who “got Chad Overhauser in the business and helped him start AmeriPro.” Overhauser is the president of AmeriPro…
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New Jumbo MBS from Redwood Will Include TRID Loans with Compliance Exceptions; Minimal Impact on Rating

June 2, 2016
Brandon Ivey
While uncertainty persists regarding TRID, KBRA said it only slightly increased its loss expectations on Redwood’s planned jumbo MBS.
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Short Takes: Quicken Top Contributor to New Redwood MBS / Cleveland Rocks for Quicken / Fannie Says Consumers Wrong on DTI / More MSR Deals / CAR Concerned About ‘Super Lien’ Status in California

June 2, 2016
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
Fannie Mae said the result is that potential buyers may be wrongly disqualifying themselves before they even apply for a mortgage…
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Chimera, New Residential Issue Non-Agency MBS Backed by Vintage Mortgages

June 1, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Chimera retained about 15.0 percent of all three of the non-agency MBS...
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Redwood Close to Issuing its First Jumbo MBS of the Year, Likely to Include TRID Loans

May 26, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Redwood indicated the income from the new jumbo MBS will be lower than income received through whole-loan sales...
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Redwood Learns to Compete and Cooperate With Banks

May 25, 2016
Brandon Ivey
“The banks’ sweet spot is with super prime,” said Marty Hughes, Redwood’s CEO…
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Short Takes: Donald, the Housing Bubble and Tim / Yahoo and Quicken? / Duff Report Puts Ocwen in the Clear / SCOTUS Unlikely to Take Marketplace Case / Vendor Update: Chronos

May 25, 2016
Brandon Ivey and Paul Muolo
The housing bubble did in fact burst and I don’t recall Trump making any money off of it unless he did so through private investments that none of us know about...
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OCC Fines Wells Fargo $70 Million for Servicing Issues, Ends Consent Order Dating Back to 2011

May 25, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Four other banks were released from similar restrictions by the OCC earlier this year...
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House Approves Bill Allowing Temporary License for Loan Originators that Transfer from Banks to Nonbanks

May 24, 2016
Brandon Ivey
The SAFE Transitional Licensing Act of 2015 had strong support from the Mortgage Bankers Association, The Community Home Lenders Association and other trade groups.
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Final Jumbo Tally for 1Q16: $77 Billion; JPM Dethrones Wells as Market Leader

May 23, 2016
Brandon Ivey
Last summer, Chase started offering jumbos with credit scores as low as 680 and downpayments as small as 15 percent. Previously, the bank required credit scores of at least 720 and 20 percent down…
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