• Mortgage defaults level off in June, FHA new defaults down 15%,HousingWire Automation

    Mortgage defaults level off in June, FHA new defaults down 15%

    New mortgage default activity remained stable in June, with new defaults among Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers falling 15% from a year earlier, marking the largest annual decline in more than four years. That’s according to Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) latest First Look Mortgage

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  • The silence after the breach is the part you control,Mitch Cohen

    The silence after the breach is the part you control

    A ransomware group posts a lender’s name on a dark web leak site. Terabytes of loan files,  Social Security numbers, bank account details, employee records. The clock the public sees starts there. The clock that matters started weeks or months earlier, the day the intrusion was detected. And in the

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  • Non-agency is not subprime. The mortgage industry needs to start acting like it.,Victor Kuznetsov

    Non-agency is not subprime. The mortgage industry needs to start acting like it.

    In the mortgage industry, no word carries more stigma than subprime. For anyone who lived through 2008, it brings up memories of falling home values, rising foreclosures and a financial system that nearly came apart at the seams. Pinning that same reputation on non-QM lending is a mistake the indust

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