Jefferies continues to expand its residential/commercial mortgage- and asset-backed securities effort with the hiring of a new managing director and head of the company's MBS/ABS/CMBS group in Boston. Mark Plansky, who previously worked for Barclays for eight years, was hired to lead the Boston securitization group. Jefferies said its MBS/ABS/CMBS group now includes more than 60 sales, trading and origination professionals in the U.S. and London, including former RBS Greenwich Capital CMBS researcher Lisa Pendergast, whom it hired in June as head of CMBS strategy and risk.
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The Treasury official renewed a pledge to avoid hurting how mortgages trade in a Fox Business News interview as a new study highlighted one way to do that.
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A federal appeals court agreed to have the full bench rehear arguments by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's union about whether the Trump administration planned to gut the agency through mass firings.
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The bill's signing comes weeks after one of the most notorious NTRAP providers agreed to legal settlements in two states, nullifying existing contracts.
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Mortgage activity fell 3.8% from one week prior for the week ending Dec. 12, led by a 4% drop in refinance applications, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
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The deal significantly grows United Wholesale Mortgage's servicing portfolio, and it will increase the float on its common stock, making it more investable.
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The lawsuit is the latest scrutiny over personnel moves this year at the companies under the purview of U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.
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