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Mortgage lender AmeriFirst Financial files for bankruptcy

Housing Wire

filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, just two months after it got back into the forward mortgage origination business. Bankruptcy Court for Delaware. Other creditors in the AmeriFirst bankruptcy with unsecured claims exceeding $500,000 include – RCP Customized Credit Fund ($5.97 million, court pleadings show.

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Loan buybacks haven’t disappeared, but they are trending down

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The loan repurchase trend that began to sting many mortgage originators in 2022 appears to finally be winding down, according to a recent report by Sterling Point Advisors and Augment Analytics. We’re seeing a downward trend in total [loans] repurchased [on a dollar basis], and that’s true for both Fannie and Freddie,” Ludden said. “I

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

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Minneapolis-based CarVal Investors , a global alternative investment manager and long-time player in the mortgage market, has launched a real estate mortgage investment conduit, or REMIC, that plans to work with loan originators around the country to develop and acquire innovative nonagency mortgage products.

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There’s more blood on the tracks in the non-QM market

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billion in assets, has a diverse portfolio of residential and commercial real estate assets. A closer look at WMC’s books, however, shows that as of June 30 its residential whole loan portfolio, nearly all of which is comprised of non-QM loans, was underwater by some $44 million. WMC, with some $2.8 The dreaded discount.

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Figure partners with NovaWulf on proposed reorg of crypto lender Celsius

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The partnership was made public by Figure on Thursday and comes a day after an announcement from Celsius — which filed for bankruptcy in July 2022 — that it will be acquired by NovaWulf. Figure Acquisition Corp., a blank check company affiliated with Figure, was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange in December.

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Private-label MBS market facing strong headwinds

Housing Wire

In July and August of this year, there was a total of 25 residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) deals secured by mortgage pools valued at $8.3 That compares to 135 RMBS offerings backed by loans valued at $57.1 billion over the same period in 2021. The Fed capped monthly MBS runoff of its $2.7

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Private-label RMBS market has cause to celebrate

Housing Wire

As 2021 draws to a close, it’s clear that the private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market has notched a year for the record books. The major driver of private-label issuance this year has been the jumbo-loan market. For the full year, the RMBS 2.0 Morgan, via its private label conduit, J.P.

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