Risk management

Derek Flowers, a 24-year company veteran, will replace the retiring Amanda Norton. Flowers' familiarity with the megabank's operations will help as it continues working through regulatory consent orders, CEO Charlie Scharf said.

The government-sponsored enterprise also unveiled two new tranche slices for investors to purchase.

Yan Zhao, President of NYDIG as she exploreshow Bitcoin is experiencing wider adoption in the traditional finance world, and why that is.

The North Carolina company has estimated the degree of exposure to flooding and hurricanes that exists in its mortgage and commercial loan books and has tallied its losses from severe storm damage in recent years. It’s one of a few regional banks to publish assessments based on the criteria of a global task force.

The reception in the market to structured single-family CRTs' return at the government-sponsored enterprise was strong enough for it to plan to follow up this transaction with another one next month.

The company will return to selling pieces of its credit exposure to private investors during the last three months of the year, but is still evaluating its strategy for 2022.

Changes proposed this week stand to reverse the effect of the Trump-era rule, which disincentivized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from making such deals, according to critics.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is looking to revise the framework intended for when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exit conservatorship in order to encourage the transfer of credit risk to private investors.

For the first time, the FDIC, Federal Reserve and OCC have combined efforts to advise banks on risk management procedures when working with nonbank partners.

Securitization is a sound delivery model for any lender when combined with adequate research and preparation and it offers unique benefits, too — especially in terms of greater control and efficiencies, writes Black Knight’s managing director of pipeline analytics, James Baublitz.