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Investor concerns about a 25 basis point reduction taking business from private insurers might be overblown, but a 50 bp cut could affect an additional 10%-15% of the low down payment market, KBW said.

The subsidiary of New Residential Investment produced nearly $400 million in non-QM volume in the first quarter of 2020 before putting a hold on the product offering in March.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council could determine that a broad range of mortgage companies should be subject to “heightened prudential standards,” said Andrew Olmem, a partner at Mayer Brown and a former senior economic adviser to the White House.

The move is in line with expectations that the Federal Housing Administration would extend more consumer relief amid the transition in Washington to Democratic leadership.

The auto finance company, which had stumbled in forays into the credit card business, is now seeing rapid growth in mortgage and unsecured consumer lending.

The former president and CEO of GE Capital’s restructuring and strategic ventures group was named executive vice president and chief risk officer soon after the departure of Fannie EVP Andrew Bon Salle.

Sales of previously owned homes increased unexpectedly in December, capping the best year for the housing market since 2006 as historically low mortgage rates helped power demand.

Plus, 4Q earnings show strong mortgage volumes, growth forecasted for jumbo loan market and more.

Appointee Jenn Jones spent the last four years as the chief of policy and membership at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization fighting housing and lending discrimination.

Despite that decline, the company notched its second-best quarterly earnings ever over that period.