Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. has launched an index series for agency collateralized mortgage obligations designed to track the performance of the asset class."The Merrill Lynch U.S. Agency CMO Index is the first to tackle this large, complex asset class," said Phil Galdi, managing director of the firm's global bond index and analytics group. The index series' data sets of returns and risk characteristics are available back to December 1996.
Atlas VMS acquired CloseClear.ai to help lenders prevent post-appraisal GSE buybacks. The tech continuously matches active pipelines against live disaster maps to plug closing blind spots.
BTIG is predicting mortgage origination volume for loanDepot, PennyMac Financial Services, Rithm, Rocket Cos., and UWM Holdings combined will be 5% lower than the industry consensus for the third quarter.
Researchers showed a message with no return address slips past Reject Direct Send. Credit unions were told to close this kind of gap in 2021.
Cyber policies must keep pace with a surge in incidents fueled by AI, as well a growing trend toward account takeovers.
Also, the Broker Action Coalition announced Jamie Cavanaugh as its next CEO, while Dark Matter Technologies added two new members to its leadership team.
