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The company also renewed key partnerships, recorded some reverse mortgage charges it'd previously foreseen and eked out an adjusted pretax origination gain.

Rather than adding the option of using two rather than three prior to score updates, the company suggested the former functionality be added after or scrapped.

But the company was profitable for the second consecutive period under standard accounting principles in the third quarter.

While the addition of Black Knight is already paying off in terms of cross-sell success, the unit has posted operating losses in five of the last six quarters.

Like its competitor Fannie Mae, the enterprise's earnings were higher year-over-year but recorded a quarterly decline in part due to a legacy shareholder lawsuit.

The acquisition of the mortgage servicer has costs, but it'll give the company offsetting efficiencies of scale, executives said in an earnings call Tuesday.

The government-sponsored enterprise's net income was balanced by climbing interest rates, which drove a large increase in fair value gains.

High interest rates and constrained inventory will take its toll on originations and securitization activity in 2024, the rating agency commented.

The neobank is also benefiting from its product diversity.

The market appears strongly divided, as commercial real estate presents investors with stark choices and big risk-management decisions, often differing by region and by sub-sector.

Futurewave Finance was started by former FHLBank-Chicago executive Steve Thomas, as part of a personal mission to do more to help underprivileged communities.

The number of sellers it works with in the correspondent channel has grown due to pending capital requirements affecting larger depositories' interest in loans.

Large language models were a big part of the discussion during the company's earnings call on Thursday.

Even though it is less than two years since it allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to accept such valuations, it is difficult to evaluate their effectiveness without such examinations.

The company posted third-quarter profits of $194 million but gave no details about a potential split of its mortgage business.

CEO Scott Sanborn said it's unclear when demand from banks to buy the fintech's loans will return.

The Hicksville, New York, company beat analysts' expectations on net interest income, but a pair of souring office loans contributed to a 68% increase in nonperforming loans from the prior quarter.

The company took another net loss but some of its numbers improved as it slashed expenses and prospects improved for distressed loan services.

News of President Chris Marshall's planned departure at year-end 2024 came amid reports of net servicing gains and the start of a capital raise for an MSR fund.

Home equity investment (HEI) agreements homeowners receive upfront cash payments in exchange for giving an investor a stake in the property and the right to collect returns.