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The company also has been upgrading technology to manage its large servicing portfolio, which, with pending additions, is within reach of Chairman and CEO Jay Bray's $1 trillion goal.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sales from the portfolios of failed Silicon Valley Bank and Signature could be complete by September, according to a report published Tuesday by FHN Financial.

Compared with other tax lien transactions, PVOne 2023-1 has a much smaller initial redemption value, and has one of the lowest numbers of liens, at 9,681. Its weighted average loan-to-value (LTV) ratio is 8.8%.

The acquiring company netted an incremental gain in shareholder buy-in with its previous postponement but not enough to push the transaction forward.

Analysts look at whether the FOMC will bring the last rate hike in the cycle, whether recession is coming, and whether the Fed is making a policy mistake.

It's a toss-up between a recession or a soft landing, though some, including Fannie Mae's Doug Duncan, still believe a downturn is more likely than not.

The proposed legislation would automate access to information and require faster responses to requests for title status that have been a longstanding concern.

The Columbus, Georgia, bank is selling a $1.3 billion portfolio as part of a plan to pay off higher-cost funding. Though there are rising concerns about the office sector, Synovus said the loans it's offloading have pristine credit quality.

MSRs already get very punitive treatment relative to other assets and regulatory reform following the banking crisis could increase it, according to some analysts.

The recent conversion marked one of the final steps in the $8 billion acquisition, first announced in 2021. U.S. Bank still anticipates up to $900 million in cost savings and a breadth of opportunities to expand revenue from the transaction.

Several community banks noted an uptick in problem loans in second-quarter earnings reports. Small lenders should brace for more of this, industry observers noted.

The Wall Street giant has more than $14 billion of real estate investments, and it took a $1.15 billion hit during the second quarter from writedowns of those bets.

Even as some observers are reducing their expectations for an economic downturn, the government-sponsored enterprise changed the expected time frame that one could occur.

The disgruntled worker, among other actions, entered false information into the firm's Optimal Blue platform causing severe economic damages, the lender said.

For large banks, the agencies wanted to go above the global standards for residential mortgages, as well as some business loans, to avoid giving those lenders a competitive advantage over smaller peers, according to another person familiar with the proposal.

The share of homeowners late by 30-59 days got slightly higher but remained below 1%, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Its affiliation with Apollo Global Management frees the company from having to rely on a securitization strategy.

And it is quite likely that the lower gain on sale seen in initial Q2 bank earnings reports will read through to the large nonbank lenders, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said.

The bank's allowance for losses on commercial real estate loans jumped to $3.6 billion in the second quarter — up 64% from a year earlier. The negative forecast could portend trouble for smaller banks that have bigger exposure to the office sector.

The chattel financing firm's cash infusion is in addition to a $15.5 million venture round in 2022 and a Series A earlier this year.