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Laurie Goodman has left Amherst Securities to pursue a full-time role at the Urban Institute.

Regional lenders including Fifth Third Bancorp and BB&T Corp. are rooting for the Federal Reserve to let interest rates rise.

Loan quality and performance analytics provider LoanLogics has acquired the assets of industry risk management firm Parker & Co.

Refinance application activity sank to its lowest level since June 2009, while the market share of refi apps is at a point not seen since April 2010.

To become a Ginnie Mae MBS issuer, the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago had to get the GSE regulator’s approval for the new activity.

Bank of America is being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the close of trading on Friday and being replaced by Goldman Sachs.

Freddie Mac is offering about $1.3 billion in K certificates in its 14th multifamily securities deal of this type for the year.

NCUA said new bonds to be issued by Fannie Mae that will allow investors to share the risk of homeowner defaults will not be permitted by federal credit unions.

Federal Home Loan Bank members will be able to sell FHA, VA and rural housing loans through a FHLB program soon and these loans will be pooled into Ginnie Mae MBS.

Thirty-year conventional prepayment speeds got 22% slower than they were the previous month, including some declines in Home Affordable Refinance Program pools.