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Certain borrowers cut off from help due to the market's elevated equity levels and rates may fare better under coming changes made at the direction of the FHFA.

If approved by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the program will not lead to large amounts of home equity being extracted, nor is it mission creep, wrote Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst Bose George.

Despite a recent warning about an uptick in prepays, FHA seems to be leaning in the direction of adopting changes that will increase them, writes the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

Executives at the Toronto-based bank said last year that they planned to add 150 branches in the United States. But when pressed on Thursday, they could not say how much they'll scale back their ambitions due to investigations over TD's anti-money laundering practices.

Former Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria may return, but analysts told an industry meeting someone else is more likely in line for the role.

But some of the financial damage lenders have on mortgage originations comes from their own disclosure errors, Intercontinental Exchange added.

Fannie Mae called out AI's potential to end defects as Freddie Mac sought to spur current loan-quality tool use by quantifying benefits at an industry meeting.

Professionals also must grapple with the issue of wanting liquidity on assets in an era of low production.

Others have also expressed dissatisfaction over the lack of information about the second lien program, a Freddie Mac executive said during a recent MBA conference.

Understanding the peril is important for both primary and secondary mortgage market pricing of loans and risk, experts in a panel to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Secondary Conference said Tuesday.

The Federal Housing Administration also instituted a new language preference requirement that servicers must observe in transfers.

The move may help address nonbank liquidity risks highlighted in a recent FSOC report, Sam Valverde, acting president, told attendees at an industry meeting.

The announcement, made at the Mortgage Bankers Association's Secondary and Capital Markets Conference, underscores Ginnie Mae's role at the forefront of digitization efforts in the capital markets space.

Some of the points in last week's Financial Stability Oversight Council report on mortgage servicing overstate potential risk posed by IMBs, writes the Executive Director of the Community Home Lenders of America.

The engine, rebranded as ICE PPE, was considered not as robust as the Optimal Blue product it was forced to sell in the Black Knight deal.

Stakeholders are watching carefully as the 2023 crisis and a capital proposal increase banker wariness of mortgage assets, speakers at Invisso's MBS Forum said.

The digital lender increased its marketing spend in the first quarter of 2024, with the ultimate goal of "Uber-izing the loan officer."

The publicly traded title holding companies all had stronger earnings as the mortgage market improved from one year prior.

There's temporary leeway on formal compliance with replacement-cost value requirements in order to sort out insurer concerns with a recent re-emphasis on them.

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