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NYCB, a struggling $78B resi mortgage servicer, to receive $1B equity investment

Housing Wire

Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s private equity firm, Liberty Strategic Capital , will inject $1 billion in equity investment in struggling New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), one of the nation’s largest residential mortgage servicers. Targeting a 10% CET1 ratio, the bank cut its quarterly dividend from $0.17

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How the Basel Endgame could impact the mortgage market 

Housing Wire

Rumors this week that regulators would increase residential mortgage capital requirements for larger depositary banks, far exceeding international standards under the Basel III rules, have raised alarms for industry executives, analysts and trade groups. To understand the context, U.S.

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Nations Direct Mortgage appoints new national sales director

Housing Wire

Nations Direct Mortgage, a residential lender in both the retail and wholesale channels, on Wednesday announced appointing Jack O’Brien as its senior vice president and national sales director. O’Brien & Associates and VP, Eastern regional sales manager at National City Home Equity, among others. .

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This global investment firm wants to become a non-QM rainmaker

Housing Wire

The new REMIC, Mill City Loan Holdings LLC , will serve as a mortgage conduit for funds managed by CarVal while also developing relationships with originators to acquire “residential mortgage assets across multiple strategies,” according to a CarVal statement announcing the launch of the REMIC, which will do business as Mill City Loans.

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Why industry watchers expect mortgage rates to fluctuate in coming weeks

Housing Wire

The Federal Reserve ‘s decision to raise the federal funds rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday signaled that officials are still focused on bringing down inflation to 2% while monitoring how much recent bank failures slow lending in the economy and cool demand. Rates were lower at 6.45% on Wednesday on Mortgage News Daily. ​​In

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2023: A year of retrenchment for the secondary mortgage market

Housing Wire

It’s purely driven by interest rate risk, and it’s also being driven by a lack of liquidity and a loss of deposits in the banking system [a major purchaser of whole loans and mortgage-backed securities in the past].” percentage points in early December, when historically that spread has ranged between 1 to 2 percentage points.

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Pennymac sticks to its strategy as the market continues to shrink

Housing Wire

However, the company was able to report a profit in an extremely difficult operating environment for residential mortgage originators in addition to seasonally low purchase origination volumes in Q4.” Therefore, its results portend a challenging quarter for the non-bank mortgage sector,” Kornfeld said.

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