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Unlike two years ago, when the surge of refinance loans created a vast pool of free financing for the industry to use, today lenders must pay for it by the drink.

Rising interest rates eliminated any refinance incentive for 30% of the loans analyzed by Standard & Poor's, marking a turnaround from the start of the year when prepay speeds were expected to increase

A new wave of interest in partnerships between investors and mortgage companies is emerging.

Such exchanges are neither easy nor cheap and the key to any effective transfer process is accurate loan file information, writes Paradatec's director of professional services.

California has been more typically prevalent in other offerings, but this nearly $817 million package of rights to borrowers’ payments is one exception in a hot market limited only by capacity constraints.

Equitable housing initiatives the government–sponsored enterprises detailed Wednesday will rely on mortgage company uptake of experimental underwriting strategies.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac asked originators to resubmit applications that contained errors and adjust sold mortgage information due to incorrect life-of-loan representations and warranties.

The credit card issuer Synchrony Financial recently used FICO’s top competitor in a $1 billion deal. The choice is significant for VantageScore, but FICO remains the dominant credit score in the securitization market, according to analysts.

The inability to include both types together in standard loan pools has been one of the hurdles to the adoption of digital collateral.

However, in line with promises housing agencies have made to be cautious in their expansion of underwriting, new rules around financing for properties with accessory dwelling units still have several guardrails.