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Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Dec. 4.

Fannie hasn't completed any credit risk transfers to private investors since the second quarter. Some experts worry the decision — likely spurred by the company’s concerns about a recent capital regulation — could put the mortgage giant on unsteady footing.

The money lenders are making on each home loan hit another survey-record high in the third quarter, but it may not be quite as high going forward.

The economic fallout from COVID-19 has highlighted systemic concerns about commercial real estate exposure, business debt and short-term wholesale funding, the Financial Stability Oversight Council said in an annual report.

The results are in the middle of the range provided before the company went public in October.

As CTO of MDGO, Gilad Avrashi spearheads MDGO’s technology vision and direction. Prior to founding MDGO, Avrashi served for six years at Rafael Defense Systems at the National Acoustic Lab, where he headed a team of engineers and researchers and conducted full-scale trials at sea. During his time at Rafael, he also headed the Algorithmics team of several top projects, received 3 Certificates of Merit and was awarded the Ministry of Defense’s prestigious Katzir Grant. Avrashi served as an officer in one of IDF's elite intelligence units. Gilad holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing and Communication from the Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology.

About 23% of borrowers under 30 got such a loan in October.

John Mathews is head of Ultra High Net Worth and Private Wealth Management Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.

Thomas L. Porter, PhD, CPA, is a professor of accounting at Hult International Business School and an adjunct professor at Boston University.

The transaction involving 345 high-balance mortgages is just the third sponsored by Morgan Stanley's mortgage acquisition and trading arm since the financial crisis more than a decade ago.