New Century Bank, Phoenixville, Pa., which recently entered the warehouse lending arena, has named Glenn Hedde president of the new division. Mr. Hedde will be in charge of approving and monitoring lines of credit extended to non-depository mortgage banking firms. Previously, he served as regional director of Agree Capital in Flushing, N.Y., and before that senior vice president of Popular Warehouse Lending, Marlton, N.J. (PWL was a division of Banco Popular, San Juan, P.R.) New Century is managed by Jay Sidhu, former CEO of Sovereign Bancorp. As reported by National Mortgage News this summer, Mr. Sidhu made the strategic decision to have New Century enter warehouse lending.
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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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