Luminent Mortgage Capital Inc., San Francisco, has announced the securitization of $799.6 million of prime mortgage loans. "LUM 2006-7 has credit enhancement from multiple sources, including subordination, excess interest, overcollateralization, allocation of losses and, as a first for Luminent, lender-paid primary mortgage insurance," said Megan Mahoney, senior vice president of client relations at Luminent. "In addition, the class I certificates will also have the benefit of a swap and a cap agreement." The lender-paid MI was provided by Triad Guaranty Insurance Corp., and the derivatives were provided by Bear Stearns Financial Products Inc., Luminent said. Luminent can be found on the Web at http://www.luminentcapital.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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