Finance

This time last year, some questioned whether Signature Bank could maintain its strong earnings streak, given a heavy reliance on residential mortgage-backed securities.

Hurricane Sandy may have given a final push into special servicing to the $103.5 million Long Island Marriott and Conference Center hotel loan.

An American Securitization Forum meeting speaker confirmed regional home value recoveries but said full bond analysis is still needed.

Long-term rate-indicative 10-year Treasury note yields touched 2% for the first time since April as orders for durable goods in the U.S. rose more than forecast.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has priced $300 million in asset-backed term notes.

Former banker John Delaney may just be a freshman congressman in the House of Representatives, but his industry experience could make him an important commodity as key financial services bills come up for vigorous debate.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will let some borrowers who kept up payments as their homes lost value erase their debts by giving up the properties.

The board of publicly registered real estate investment trust MVP REIT Inc. has approved an increase in its monthly distribution rate on its common shares.

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers' NAMB National conference in Las Vegas was the best attended the organization had in years. During the show, Origination News met with the group's board and discussed NAMB's repositioning, new regulations and the future of wholesale.

Louis Borsellino, newly-installed president of the New York Association of Mortgage Brokers, lays out his plans for the coming year.

Markit released series 6 of CMBX, the synthetic indices based on a static portfolio of U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities.

First American Financial Corp. has priced a $250 million debt offering which is scheduled to close on Jan. 29.

Redwood Trust sold $619.2 million of home-loan securities in its second deal this month.

The Federal Reserve purchased $14.1 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities over the past week.

Most mortgage officials feared Jan. 21, 2013 much more than the abortive Doomsday that was supposed to have happened a month earlier.

Updates from the Consumer Financial Protection Board and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Secondary market platform Tradeweb released numbers showing to-be-announced mortgage-backed securities trading reached a record high of $24 trillion in 2012.

San Bernardino County has rejected a controversial plan to use eminent domain for the seizure of underwater mortgages.

Residential Capital agreed to pay $297.6 million to end opposition by government-run loan investor Fannie Mae to the sale of ResCap’s main business.

There were two events in the weeks leading up to the New York Association of Mortgage Brokers annual convention which would have an impact on attendees and their immediate future.