Ginnie Mae has set the stage for the launch of its reverse mortgage securitization program this September with the release of a guide for mortgage-backed securities issuers.The new guide for securitizing Federal Housing Administration-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgages provides detailed issuer pooling and reporting specifications. "The HECM Mortgage Backed Securities Guide will be an essential source of information for issuers preparing to participate in the HMBS program," said Michael Frenz, executive vice president of Ginnie Mae. A Ginnie Mae HMBS pool must have a minimum outstanding balance of $1 million, and issuers must have a minimum net worth of $500,000, according to the HMBS guide.
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Lenders and condo market stakeholders are raising concerns that new GSE rules ending limited reviews and tightening reserve requirements could raise costs and limit access.
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Stakeholders rely on detailed, easy-to-read reports. From including cited data to using a structured format, learn how to simplify the lending reports process.
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The national delinquency rate ticked up seven basis points to 3.72% last month, coupled with a 10-basis-point increase in prepayment speed, according to ICE.
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The title policy and settlement statement datasets introduce digital standards that will allow the information on forms to move as data instead of documents.
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What was once a bipartisan and broadly popular housing bill has been weighed down with a pair of provisions that banks can't support. Even with those headwinds, the bill is more likely than not to pass, but not without drawn-out negotiations between the House and Senate.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr said in a speech Tuesday afternoon that he wants to see a durable and reliable reduction in consumer price inflation before he considers cutting the central bank's interest rates.
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