Embrace Home Loans, Newport, R.I., has acquired Mason Dixon Funding, Rockville, Md. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Mason Dixon Funding said its principal owners, including executive vice president Cary Reines, will remain with the company and report to Embrace Home Loans' president, Kurt Noyce, and Embrace's chief executive officer and founder Dennis Hardiman. Mason Dixon has nine retail branches in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Delaware. Embrace, which earlier this month changed its name from Advanced Financial Services, has originated more than $3 billion in loans this year and operates 16 retail branches.
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Non-qualified mortgages account for 23.1% of the series 2026-7 pool, by balance, and 43.4% of the loans in the pool were made to investors for business purposes and are exempt from the Ability-to-Repay rules.
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Besides promoting Sridhar Sharma to CEO from president, the company named Andrew Bon Salle, ex-Fannie exec, as its new chairman, both replacing Chris Marshall.
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Several proposed updates, including lower risk-weight floors for certain securitizations and corporate loans, could make it more attractive for banks to finance or hold certain private credit-related assets, experts say.
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Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr appears to be among the majority of monetary policymakers who foresee at least one more rate hike before the end of the year.
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Attom expanded its artificial intelligence platform, eLend partnered with Ready4Remodel to increase renovation financing and Keller Williams teamed up with Rejig.ai.
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Several lawsuits filed this year have painted the shared appreciation agreements as misleading, and suggest they should be treated as mortgage loans.
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