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Opinion: Bank capital requirements would put squeeze on mortgage market

Housing Wire

In September, the nation’s banking regulators released a proposal to increase the capital required of banks with more than $100 billion in assets. The effort was intended to decrease systemic risk, but by focusing narrowly on the risk posed by banks, it would likely increase risk in the mortgage market.

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Comerica Bank to ‘organically exit’ warehouse lending

Housing Wire

Dallas-based Comerica Bank has decided to “organically exit” the mortgage banker finance business following the tumult in the banking industry that threatened the nation’s top warehouse lenders. The bank expects to improve its loan-to-deposit ratio by 150 basis points by the end of 2023.

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Figure hires banks for lending arm IPO: Bloomberg

Housing Wire

Mike Cagney’s financial technology firm Figure Technologies has taken another step to go public with its lending division, LendCo , hiring investment banks to coordinate the initial public offering (IPO), per a Bloomberg report. Figure and the banks declined to comment. JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

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Change Lending to join Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Housing Wire

Nonbank mortgage originator Change Lending will become a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB-SF). Change Lending’s services include small-business loans and lines of credit, investor real estate loans, rehab loans and renovation loans, according to its website.

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Pacific Western Bank gets $1.4B from Atlas after 20% decline in deposits

Housing Wire

The current bank crisis hit California-based Pacific Western Bank , a community bank owned by PacWest Bancorp that has a focus on real estate and commercial loans. billion from the Federal Home Loan Banks , $10.5 billion in Bank Term Funding Program borrowings. Pacific Western Bank reported $11.4

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US government to sell off $13B of mortgage bonds from failed banks Signature and SVB

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government is seeking to sell $13 billion worth of mortgage bonds amassed after the failures of both Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank earlier this year. BlackRock Financial Market Advisory had preliminary conversations with investors about the bonds, the report said, citing unnamed sources.

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UWM expands DSCR offerings to real estate investors

Housing Wire

Dubbed “Investors Flex,” the non-QM product for real estate investors, offered purchase and refinance loans up to $2 million that could be used to finance up to 20 properties by using each property’s monthly rental income to qualify. UWM originated $38.8 billion in mortgage loans in the first quarter of 2022, a 29.7%

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