The residential primary servicer ratings of PHH Mortgage Corp. for prime, alternative-A, and home equity products have been lowered from RPS1 to RPS1-minus by Fitch Ratings.Fitch said the actions were based on the downgrade of the underlying corporate rating of the parent company, PHH Corp., whose senior debt was recently downgraded from A-minus to BBB-plus. (PHH announced in July that its financial statements for 2005 would need to be restated.) Fitch rates residential servicers on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest rating. The rating agency can be found online at http://www.fitchratings.com.
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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.
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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.
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Cyber policies must keep pace with a surge in incidents fueled by AI, as well a growing trend toward account takeovers.
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Also, the Broker Action Coalition announced Jamie Cavanaugh as its next CEO, while Dark Matter Technologies added two new members to its leadership team.
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