Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

Under the latest rumored changes to Basel III regulations , large depository institutions would see residential mortgage capital requirements that far exceed international standards, according to a report by Bloomberg. The regulators want smaller banks to be able to better compete with larger peers, Bloomberg reported.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision Michael Barr said the central bank is taking “a very thoughtful approach” to the Basel III rules (aka the Basel endgame), which would significantly increase bank capital requirements and, if implemented, affect the mortgage industry. “We Trade groups have opposed the new regulations.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank resumed mortgage originations on Tuesday via its newly established “bridge bank” — just four days after California state regulators took possession of the financial institution and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) as receivers. The company’s average mortgage loan was about $1.45

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Housing Wire

JULY 31, 2023

Flagstar Bank , a top-25 U.S. Flagstar made news in recent months, expanding its footprint and further diversifying its business model with the completion of the merger with New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) and the acquisition of certain financially and strategically complementary parts of Signature Bank.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amid higher rates, lower volumes, and fiercer competition , Santander Bank decided it will stop originating residential mortgages and home equity loans in the United States. The Spanish bank said it will continue to service current loans and honor pending borrowers’ applications. regulators. trillion in 2022.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2023

First Federal Bank will acquire the mortgage division of BNC National Bank , which will give the Florida-headquartered community-based bank a nationwide consumer direct mortgage platform. The purchase, which includes the bank’s consumer-direct technology platform, is expected to close in the second quarter of 2023.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 5, 2023

Mortgage rates declined last week as headlines on the bank crisis slowed, which could have spurred borrowers’ demand for home loans. retail residential mortgage applications. But the decline in demand for mortgage loans was more evident in the government market, which consists of Federal Housing Administration (FHA), U.S.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2023

The Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures that occurred over the last week have caused even more uncertainty within the mortgage industry. Still, homebuyers took advantage of declining rates provoked by the turbulence and applied for home loans. retail residential mortgage applications.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 8, 2023

Ohio-headquartered Park National Bank will pay $9 million under a settlement with the U.S. The DOJ also claims that the bank failed to take any meaningful measures to compensate for its lack of physical presence in majority-Black and Hispanic communities. Park National Bank didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The latest baseline increase in conforming loan limits has enabled loan originator Dave Krichmar’s client to make a 5% down payment instead of 10%. The self-employed homebuyer found an $800,000 home in Texas, but with the conforming loan limit for 2023 being $726,200, the buyer needed a jumbo loan or a bank statement loan.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2023

Los Angeles-headquartered City National Bank agreed to pay $31 million in relief to impacted individuals and communities to settle a redlining case with the U.S. Consequently, other banks received more than six times as many applications in these neighborhoods in Los Angeles County than City National each year.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2023

Independent mortgage banks have been coping with a still-surging wave of loan-repurchase requests from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that represents yet another threat to lenders’ already stretched balance sheets. Those loans are going to be 20 points underwater, for the 3% to 3.5%

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The lender announced Friday a partnership with Salesforce to deliver Rocket’s mortgage origination capabilities directly to banks, credit unions and other FIs through Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. ” There are nearly 5,000 FDIC-insured banks and more than 5,000 credit unions in the U.S. .

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

has been on a tear in 2021 when it comes to pursuing private-label securitizations, with 13 deals backed by some 22,000 home loans valued at $8 billion now under its belt through mid-November of this year. The post Flagstar is banking on the private-label market appeared first on HousingWire. Flagstar Bancorp. billion deal in August.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2021

MAXEX , a digital exchange platform for buying and selling residential loans, announced on Wednesday the launch of two new lending programs in collaboration with JPMorgan Chase for green energy home improvements. Both programs are offered for loan values from $400,000 to $3 million. “The U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

New York-based nonbank mortgage lender RealFi (formally known as Residential Home Funding Corp. “They have let branch managers and loan officers go and say they are transitioning to a broker [shop].” ” A former processor confirmed that “all staff was let go, from operations to loan officers.”

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I , a blank check company affiliated with fintech Figure Technologies , plans to merge with a warehouse lender and bank holding company to potentially bring blockchain technology to the financial institution. Figure Technologies raised $1.6

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

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. The leadership is also changing. billion goodwill impairment.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Compounding the lack of supply is the proverbial “lock-in“ effect that has disincentivized homeowners to sell their current properties, thereby giving up a low mortgage rate and taking on a new loan at a much higher rate. banks in comparison to international standards.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The bank, through its residential mortgage-backed securities conduit, Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust , has securitized some 45,000 reperforming loans valued in aggregate at $6.8 And they are truly scratch-and-dent loans. Yet, there is a huge demand for these reperforming loans and the securities issued against them.

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Housing Wire

JULY 13, 2022

What does ESG’s growth and current ubiquity mean for residential MBS markets? If done responsibly, ESG and RMBS should coexist in a positive, self-reinforcing, meaningful way, and one that establishes the residential mortgage market as a best practices leader in the movement overall. Others are less sanguine about the movement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rocket Pro TPO is diversifying its product portfolio by offering home equity loans to brokers by mid-September amid increased competition in the wholesale channel. The move follows Rocket Mortgage ‘s roll out of home equity loans in August as the firm tries to capitalize on Americans’ strong home equity positions. .

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Less than a year after coming to the rescue of Signature Bank during the market turmoil of March 2023, New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) faces a confidence crisis due to its exposure to commercial real estate loans. NYCB’s provisions for loan losses surged to $552 million in Q4 2023, up from $62 million in the previous quarter.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2023

PNC Bank issued pink slips to an undisclosed number of employees this week as part of its focus on controlling costs. “As PNC has a retail banking business that covers residential mortgage, corporate and institutional banking and asset management. The company reported total consumer loans of $101.8 Of the $101.8

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Housing Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Bank of America (BofA) reported another quarterly decline in mortgage and home equity production in the first quarter of 2024. Loan production in the home equity arena was $1.8 BofA’s mortgage assets Bank of America had $227.7 billion in outstanding residential mortgages on its books through March 31, 2024, down from $228.9

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“Mortgage credit availability declined slightly in August, as investors reduced their offerings of ARM and non-QM loan programs,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting. Companies that plan to roll out HELOC products include loanDepot and New Residential Investment Corp.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

California-headquartered LoanSnap was hit with a temporary order to cease and desist from Connecticut’s Department of Banking for “systemic” unlicensed mortgage loan origination activity. These individuals also received inbound calls from individuals interested in obtaining mortgage loans, the order stated.

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Housing Wire

JULY 20, 2023

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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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Closing out this week’s people mover announcements, Western Alliance Bank named Jim Karr as national sales manager for its correspondent mortgage solutions team, which is part of the bank’s Specialized Mortgage Services group. Thompson led the company through its most successful year ever, funding over $2.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2024

Mortgage businesses at Wells Fargo , JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are now only a fraction of what they were in 2022. The data shows that the bank produced $25.3 billion in home loans, representing only 23% of the $108 billion volume in the previous year, when it was still the kingfish in correspondent lending.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2023

Bank of America (BofA), a top-20 U.S. mortgage lender, reported on Tuesday significant improvements to its home loan business in the second quarter of 2023, just as competitors JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo did late last week. But executives at all three banks expect some major regulatory headwinds. BofA had an 11.6%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 3, 2022

Lakeview Loan Servicing unveiled a rare private-label securities offering this past March involving a pool of mostly delinquent mortgages serviced by the company. The loans in the offering were all originated through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and later securitized through Ginnie Mae. In total, 99.3%

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Housing Wire

JUNE 29, 2022

Boston fintech firm Knox Financial plans to expand its lending business and loan products with $50 million in funding it received from a real estate advisory firm. The fintech also will offer additional loan products, including home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), new purchase loans and cash-out refinancings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 17, 2022

These multiple market pressures have fueled rate volatility and accompanying pricing-execution pressures that have led to a difficult beginning of the year for the private-label securities (PLS) market, according to market experts, and, as a side effect, sparked a more robust market for whole-loan sales — with loans often being sold at a discount.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It also has been a brutal year for the secondary market that creates liquidity for mortgage lenders as greatly reduced mortgage originations, liquidity challenges and interest rate volatility have played havoc in the whole-loan trading as well as the private-label and agency securitization channels.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

mortgage lender Bank of America (BofA) reported declining mortgage and home equity production in the third quarter of 2023, compared to the previous quarter. And more declines are yet to come if regulators’ proposed capital rules are applied to banks, according to BofA’s executives. Deposits at Bank of America were $1.88

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Banks moved to ease lending standards for most mortgage loan products during the second quarter, according to a loan officer opinion survey published this week by the Federal Reserve Board. Overall, feedback from participants – 75 domestic banks and 22 U.S.

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