Mortgage banking firms are now servicing a record $843 billion in GNMA securities, a 46% spike from a year ago, reflecting the increasing popularity of both the FHA and VA loan programs. Moreover, when measured against the on-balance sheet portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, GNMA is now larger than both by tens of billions of dollars. According to figures compiled by National Mortgage News and the Quarterly Data Report, Wells Fargo & Co., continues to dominate the GNMA servicing market with a portfolio that has grown to $215 billion. Bank of America is second with $189 billion. (Figures as of September 30.) Combined, Wells and BoA have a GNMA market share of almost 48%, NMN found, dwarfing the rest of the industry.
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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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