Bank of America says it is getting an encouraging response to the "no-fee mortgage" that it started offering to bank customers in the state of Washington back in September."We're currently in the pilot program stage," BoA chief financial officer Joe Price said during a teleconference on the bank's fourth-quarter earnings. "Customer reaction so far has been pretty good, but we're at the stage of evaluation to see where it leads." Under the pilot program, the prime mortgage lender waives all application and origination fees. It also pays all third-party fees and even private mortgage insurance, if necessary. "There is no defined time line for expanding it" to other states, a company spokesman said.
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JPMorganChase and Bank of America raised concerns about the proposed removal of risk-weighted assets from the denominator of the short-term wholesale funding component of the GSIB surcharge — changes backed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly plans to send the recently passed housing bill to the White House on Monday, starting a 10-day clock for the president to sign the bill.
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The national delinquency rate rose 15 basis points to 3.5% last month due to a calendar anomaly, marking a 4.5% month-over-month incline and 9.4% annual change.
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ICE launched a fraud detection tool for underwriters, Newrez partnered with Matic and Rate announced a free home equity monitoring tool this month.
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Nearly one-third of states now have official nonbank standards for liquidity, capital and corporate governance that firms over a certain threshold must meet.
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KBW now rates UWM as outperform, and BTIG calls the stock a buy, but both cite high leverage levels and industry macro trends depressing its stock price.
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