Investment banker Credit Suisse is in talks to buy subprime wholesaler ResMae Mortgage of Brea, Calif., investment banking sources have confirmed to MortgageWire.At deadline time, ResMae had not returned telephone calls. A source at Credit Suisse confirmed the talks but said a purchase agreement has not been signed. According to the Quarterly Data Report, ResMae is a top-20-ranked subprime funder. (For more details, see the Jan. 22 issue of National Mortgage News.) ResMae can be found on the Web at https://www.resmae.com.
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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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