Finance

For a surprising number of companies pursuing an IPO is a mistake, Endurance Advisory Partners CEO Stephen Curry says.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council could determine that a broad range of mortgage companies should be subject to “heightened prudential standards,” said Andrew Olmem, a partner at Mayer Brown and a former senior economic adviser to the White House.

At least 25 properties that Columbia Sussex Corp. has financed with loans packaged into commercial-mortgage backed securities are in special servicing or on servicer watch lists.

The auto finance company, which had stumbled in forays into the credit card business, is now seeing rapid growth in mortgage and unsecured consumer lending.

The former president and CEO of GE Capital’s restructuring and strategic ventures group was named executive vice president and chief risk officer soon after the departure of Fannie EVP Andrew Bon Salle.

Despite that decline, the company notched its second-best quarterly earnings ever over that period.

The investments, part of a post-merger effort to wring out more profits, include new commercial and mortgage lending platforms.

The company’s 4Q originations were down from the same time in 2019 and the number of overall loans for 2020 marked a decline from the year before.

Upcoming changes to underwriting regulations, as well as the end of the QM patch, in addition to growing home values, all add up for this market to have a good year.

While some industry forecasts predicted origination volumes would fall 7% quarter-to-quarter in 4Q, early earnings numbers from Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and PNC Bank show they were down just 3% when purchased loans are excluded.