Finance

Financial tightening stemming from two recent bank collapses has served as its own check on inflation, according to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. He said the relatively small rate hike announced Wednesday was not the result of financial stability concerns.

Excess returns on the bonds, which compares mortgage backed security performance to Treasuries, are -0.94% for March, on track for the worst relative performance since September.

The government-sponsored enterprise took the next step towards allowing lenders to implement its property valuation modernization plans.

Economists have warned since last summer that speedy monetary tightening could be destabilizing. This week, the Federal Reserve will decide whether to stay on that course.

The government-backed acquisition heads off regulatory and financial concerns at a Swiss bank that could have affected overseas financial institutions that U.S. lenders count on.

Imbalances linked to affordability and interest rate volatility are challenging the mortgage market. Here's how they may be resolved.

Institutions can borrow against par-valued securities that they would otherwise have to sell at a loss when there's a run on deposits, and it could have effectiveness beyond its actual usage.

The technology provider is in the midst of a large reduction in spending including the dismissal of approximately 340 employees.

In its last full quarter using a mortgage banker business model, the company originated just $21.5 million, well down from $759.4 million one year prior.

The liquidity facility launched by the central bank over the weekend saw limited uptake compared to other emergency funding options.

The new fees based on the DTI, which lenders have said is too likely to vary throughout the origination process for a single loan, will now go into effect in August.

The company sold off several segments of its business last year and also completed four securitizations of reverse mortgage loans as it fully commits to the 'retirement home-equity market.'

The Bank Term Funding Program, rolled out by the central bank on Sunday night, offers par value for underwater securities that banks pledge to obtain short-term loans. Industry insiders expressed optimism on Monday that it will buy time for institutions that have been hit by rising interest rates.

Mortgage-backed securities aren't generally considered risky assets, but how SVB managed them contributed to its woes.

One year after the Federal Reserve started frantically raising interest rates, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank answered what had become perhaps the hottest question on Wall Street: When is something going to break?

The FDIC named Greg Carmichael, who retired last year as CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp, to run a bridge bank that will hold Signature's deposits and most of its assets.

The Treasury Department issued a "systemic risk exception" allowing it to cover uninsured deposits at SVB and Signature Bank, which New York State closed on Sunday.

Despite ending 2022 in the red, the lender and servicer saw full-year profits exceed 2021's total.

The REIT failed to post profits in any quarter last year, as the mortgage industry encountered a steep originations slowdown.

The company lost $163.7 million last year as funded origination volume fell 71% annually to $27.6 billion in 2022.