Finance

Banks that are customers of one or both vendors may look to leverage the situation to get better terms for certain products. But would small clients get enough attention from the global player the merger would create?

The private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners will acquire D+H in a deal valued at $3.57 billion.

Wall Street speculators are zeroing in on the next U.S. credit crisis: the mall.

Freddie Mac is considering backing loans that finance single-family rental homes for the first time, mirroring a controversial transaction that Fannie Mae disclosed in January.

Freddie Mac is preparing a transaction that transfers credit risk on $640 million of super-conforming residential mortgages.

Mill City Holdings is returning to market with its fourth securitization of reperforming residential mortgages, this time with a sliver of home equity lines of credit added to the mix of collateral.

The company also seems to be shifting the narrative to operational performance after addressing claims of questionable insider dealings.

The HUD inspector general reignited an ongoing dispute with housing regulators, saying $29 billion of Federal Housing Administration mortgages may be at risk because they relied on deceptive borrower-financed down-payment assistance.

The New York bank will double in size while gaining greater access to Long Island and low-cost deposits that should come in handy as interest rates rise.

The agreement comes three months after Astoria and New York Community Bancorp called off plans to merge.

Altisource Portfolio Solutions has launched a new mortgage trading platform for mortgage bankers and loan investors.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has partnered with Altisource subsidiary Lenders One Cooperative, providing the organization's members with expanded benefits.

Rising interest rates have slowed a recent run of unexpectedly high prepayments of government-insured mortgages, making servicing rights for loans held in Ginnie Mae securities more attractive to investors.

Angel Oak, a regular issuer of nonprime residential mortgage bonds, is marketing its first transaction with a credit rating.

Late payments on securitized commercial mortgages resumed climbing in February, after an unexpected pause the previous month, according to Trepp.

New Residential Investment Corp. is readying an offering of bonds backed by both reperforming and nonperforming mortgages.

Deutsche Bank wants to finance hedge fund purchases of subprime loans in order to meet the terms of its $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. government.

CoreLogic has released a new platform that provides information on lien and equity positions for whole loan traders and servicers.

Profits at Mill Valley, Calif.-based Redwood Trust shrank during the fourth quarter, reflecting lower interest income and net losses on the fair value of investments.

The trend of embracing risk-based pricing in conventional mortgage fees and loan-level pricing should be reversed. Instead, credit risk should be pooled to ensure all creditworthy families have access to their American dreams.