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Should the Federal Reserve step back into the market and restart their loan purchase activity?

The share of companies experimenting with artificial intelligence has increased, but full deployment is another matter, a Fannie Mae survey found.

The transaction was scheduled to be completed in the first half of this year, and a "substantial first close" was already announced in February.

Lenders could gain efficiencies from advances in artificial intelligence as the related development of alternative data potentially opens up the market to more borrowers, but hurdles exist.

Reluctance to eliminate staff with the hope that business will turn around has been a driver of the multiple quarter stretch of industry losses, its latest study of mortgage lenders found.

Credit ratings were cut on the highest number of commercial mortgage-backed securities in "recent memory" last week, according to strategists at Bank of America Corp.

More than one securitization per month resulting from multiple disbursements of a single loan will be permitted beginning Oct. 1, the guarantor said.

The threat of instability from that group is immaterial in comparison to the existential risk created by the U.S. Treasury, argues the chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

The proposal by a regulator overseeing government-related loan buyers could cut companies with small infractions off from a key source of business, groups say.

Lenders are brushing up on ways to minimize losses associated with the increasing costs to fund mortgage pipelines.