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The proposed acquisition comes just days after Better.com announced plans to buy London-based online loan broker Trussle Lab.

So far companies plan on using roughly the same number of employees as they shift from handling payment suspensions to assessing borrowers who have seen long-term declines in their incomes.

With little transitional disruption, the bigger players on the non-agency side could gain a hefty share of non-owner-occupied mortgage volume as a result of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s caps on such purchases, a KBRA analysis finds.

The deal was constructed under Angel Oak’s social-bond framework, in which the firm intends to use the proceeds to help finance residential loans for underserved borrowers.

The mortgage real estate investment trust has been a first-mover regarding innovations in the private securitized market, and others tend to follow its lead.

Oaktree Re VI 2021-1 will market $531 million in CRT notes that will provide NMI with partial reinsurance on a $45B pool of GSE-eligible loans.

The forced liquidation of more than $20 billion of positions linked to the firm roiled stocks from Baidu Inc. to ViacomCBS Inc., casting a spotlight on the opaque world of leveraged trading strategies facilitated by some of Wall Street’s biggest names.

The proceeds are expected to be reinvested into agency mortgage-backed securities, which already make up 93% of Annaly's portfolio.

A PIMCO-sponsored HELOC securitzation, as well as a mortgage-insurance linked transaction, are the latest examples of issuers getting a head start on switching to an expected replacement benchmark for Libor.

The deal is only the third post-crisis securitization of higher-risk manufactured housing assets, following deals in 2019 and 2020 that were sponsored by FirstKey Mortgage.

Ratings agencies describe a "notable" concentration of alternative-income mortgages in the nonforming pool that were underwritten by Ellington-affiliated LendSure.

However, the share of new impairments increased, likely as a result of the high concentration of these loans given to self-employed borrowers.

DLJ and Nomura Corporate are sponsoring portfolios of mostly previously modified, well-seasoned mortgages that have at least two years of clean-current payment status.

The weighted average seasoning is 34 months, well above that of prior Invictus-sponsored deals on the Verus shelf that are typically new originations under 10 months.

The transaction features a pool of non-qualified mortgages with a higher-than-average delinquency rate driven by COVID-19 relief plans.

The Swiss banking giant is expected to set aside $850 million for litigation costs stemming from a long-running dispute with bond issuer over the sale of mortgage-backed securities.

The availability of financing hasn’t been an issue to date, but it still could be.

The nonbank lender is co-sponsoring a $258.4 million residential mortgage pool comprised entirely of wealthy borrowers with 15-year term contracts.

But existing deals are likely to experience issues resulting from higher defaults, faster prepayment speeds.

If CMBS litigation picks up in earnest in the aftermath of the pandemic, lessons gleaned from over a decade of RMBS litigation could pay dividends, Bilzen Sumberg lawyers Philip Stein and Kenneth Duvall say.