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FHA Share Drops, Cash Reserves Grow
FHA endorsement volume declined during the second quarter of 2010, lowering the program’s share of an overall mortgage origination market...
from Inside FHA Lending

PPIP Funds Post Profits on Non-Agency MBS Purchases, Help Increase Collateral Prices
The Public-Private Investment Program has contributed to a recovery in the prices of non-agency mortgage-backed securities while...
from Inside Nonconforming Markets

Sluggish Agency MBS Market Posts Modest Gain in New Issuance in July
Mortgage borrowers continue to shrug off historically low interest rates and pass up the chance to refinance in the bond market rally that...
from Inside MBS & ABS

GSE Reform: The Compromises to Come
One point of consensus among a number of long-time industry representatives and GSE observers is that whatever should be done conceptually...
from Inside The GSEs

Mortgage Profits Sagged in 2Q10, But Most Lenders Report Healthy Income
Mortgage bankers had to work a little harder during the second quarter, but industry earnings remained at historically high levels, according...
from Inside Mortgage Trends

Credit Rating Industry Must Use Transition Period to Resolve Effects of Rule 436(g) Repeal
The burden of working out a solution to the problem created by the Dodd-Frank Act’s repeal of Rule 436(g) now rests on the credit rating industry after the...
from Inside MBS & ABS

Experts Find Complexities in New Reform Law
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act brings dramatic changes to the financial regulatory landscape, but as compliance experts...
from Inside Regulatory Strategies

Regulators Targeting Disclosures on Old and Future Subprime MBS and CDO Transactions
Financial industry regulators are increasingly pursuing disclosure violations for securitized subprime mortgages. A $7.5 million fine by the Financial...
from Inside Nonconforming Markets

More Indemnification Coming, HUD Says
With expanded authority to require lenders to indemnify the Department of Housing and Urban Development for rules breaches on defaulted FHA loans...
from Inside FHA Lending

Dodd-Frank Act Requires Speedy Rulemaking for Risk Retention, Credit Rating Agency Oversight
The Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies have up to a year from the date of enactment to issue regulations...
from Inside MBS & ABS

     

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Industry’s Preferred Housing Finance Reform Mechanism, the MCGE, Has Many Unknowns
The idea to create smaller, more narrowly focused mortgage securitizers with government charters looks like an early frontrunner...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Mortgage Servicing Market Continues Shrinking In the Second Quarter, Wells Narrows the Gap
Most of the top mortgage servicers in the industry reported further declines in the balance of loans in their portfolio during the...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Community Interest, Consumer Groups Suggest GSEs Need to Be Re-Focused
Consumer and community interest groups favor continuing government support for the secondary mortgage market, but unlike industry...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Secondary Market Agency Throws a Whammy At Popular Home Improvement Program
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has effectively shut down a popular state-run program that finances home energy-improvement...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

California Takes Bigger Share of GSE Business In Early 2010; New York Reclaims Second Place
California regained some luster in the first half of 2010, stretching its share of the mortgage market financed by Fannie Mae and...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Private MIs Make Pitch for Maintaining a Role in Emerging Mortgage Finance System
Battered by the housing recession and surgically attached to the two giant secondary market agencies now in government...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Congress Retains FHA, Ginnie Mae Funding at Current Levels in FY 2011 Bill
The House of Representatives last week passed fiscal 2011 budget legislation retaining the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

House Committee Approves Authorization For National Fair Housing/Lending Testing
The House Financial Services Committee last week approved legislation aimed at preventing housing and mortgage lending...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

NAREB Fights for Mortgage Reform, Increased Minority Homeownership
Amid concern that minority groups have been disproportionately affected by the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent economic recession...
from Inside Mortgage Finance

Mortgage Market at a Glance
Weekly mortgage rates and application survey data as well as indexes for ARMs.
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