Past What We're Hearing columns

11/20/09 - THIS JUST IN: We're starting to hear unconfirmed reports that Aurora Loan Ser ...
11/13/09 - THIS JUST IN: Penny Mac has hired Jeremy Collett, who ran secondar ...
11/6/09 - Irony: Stan Kurland's vulture fund Penny Mac is trying to make a tidy lit ...
10/30/09 - THIS JUST IN: On Monday morning the Mortgage Bankers Association will rel ...
10/23/09 - What is it with Long Island, any way? It's the home of Joey Buttafuoco and Am ...
10/16/09 - THIS JUST IN: Wells Fargo & Co. reorganized its MBS and loan trading desk ...
10/9/09 - THIS JUST IN: Freddie Mac late Friday announced its warehouse lending pil ...
10/2/09 - THIS JUST IN: PNC Financial Services is fielding phone calls on the avail ...
9/25/09 - THIS JUST IN: A certain GSE is about to hike the minimum net-worth requirement f ...
9/18/09 - Loan brokers were popping champagne on Friday when the Federal Housing Administratio ...
9/11/09 - THIS JUST IN: There's a sticky little situation brewing involving Sovereign B ...
9/4/09 - THIS JUST IN: CMG Mortgage, one of the nation's largest surviving non-ban ...
8/28/09 - THIS JUST IN: A $10 billion bulk package of residential servicing rights is expe ...
8/21/09 - Paul Muolo is out of the office. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
8/14/09 - THIS JUST IN: Late this past week there was a bunch of chatter about the nonperf ...
8/7/09 - Paul Muolo is out of the office. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
7/31/09 - Paul Muolo is out of the office. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
7/24/09 - THIS JUST IN: An industry veteran with a long track record in mortgage banking i ...
7/17/09 - The biggest news of the past week? That would be the disclosure by National Mortg ...
7/10/09 - By now you've seen the exclusive on the National Mortgage News website ab ...
7/2/09 - Dan Phillips, former CEO of FirstPlus Financial, give me a call: apparent ...
6/26/09 - Here's the definition of the word "conundrum": A paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult p ...
6/19/09 - Paul Muolo is out of the office. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
6/12/09 - Now that all the weak-stomached wholesalers - Chase, GMAC and HSBC ...
6/5/09 - Before I get to the main event (Angelo Mozilo) it's time to take a look at the l ...
5/29/09 - THIS JUST IN: So, who are the other investors that Taylor, Bean & Whitaker ...
5/22/09 - THIS JUST IN: A Taylor, Bean & Whitaker-led rescue of Colonial Bancgro ...
5/15/09 - The big story of this past week? Answer: the Obama administration's plan to take ...
5/8/09 - THIS JUST IN: The Government National Mortgage Association is apparently ...
5/1/09 - THIS JUST IN: Guaranty Bank is throwing the wholesale division of its ...
4/24/09 - Paul Muolo is out of the office. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
4/17/09 - THIS JUST IN: Guess which banks - some recipients of billions of dollars in TARP ...
4/9/09 - THIS JUST IN: Bank of America is continuing to trim its broker rolls. For ...
4/3/09 - THIS JUST IN: Wells Fargo plans to expand its presence in warehouse lendi ...
3/27/09 - Who in their right mind would start a new mortgage insurance company in today's financi ...
3/20/09 - There's a been a quiet battle raging between secondary market investors and mortgage ba ...
3/13/09 - Loan brokers, it was nice knowing you. Maybe. The Federal Reserve Board may plac ...
3/6/09 - THIS JUST IN: The Government National Mortgage Association might be open ...
2/27/09 - The large regional bank that is contemplating exiting the warehouse lending arena is ...
2/20/09 - There's a basic question I've been meaning to ask readers for quite some time and it go ...
2/13/09 - THIS JUST IN: On Friday Colonial Bancgroup of Alabama closed near its 52- ...
2/6/09 - Lobbyists from the National Association of Home Builders and the rest of the cro ...
1/30/09 - I've become something of a layoff junkie. But I take no perverse pleasure in all the ne ...
1/23/09 - If it looks like a refi boom and quacks like a refi boom, then it must be one. Correct? ...
1/16/09 - THIS JUST IN: A major regional bank scuttled a $2.1 billion auction of mostly de ...
1/9/09 - What do former industry veterans Glen Corso(PMI), Bob Englestad(Fannie Mae) ...
1/2/09 - Capitalism is a wild and wacky game. And it's not for those with weak guts, which bring ...
12/26/08 - Paul Muolo is on vacation this week. We're running this story in place of his u ...
12/19/08 - If it weren't for the dire financial straits of the big three automakers, would the nat ...
12/12/08 - THIS JUST IN: The Mortgage Bankers Association has formed a new task forc ...
12/5/08 - Let's talk about Cerberus Capital and its chief Steve Feinberg, the man b ...
12/1/08 - Why 'Too Big to Fail' Scares Me - And What We Can Do About It First, the good ...
11/21/08 - Remember how at first, Treasury was going to buy "troubled" mortgage assets unde ...
11/14/08 - I've come up with a plan to stabilize the U.S. mortgage market and it starts with jobs. ...
11/7/08 - THIS JUST IN: It's too early to tell what changes the incoming Obama administrat ...
10/31/08 - ELECTION WEEKEND EDITORAL: Every four years, the late, great Stan Strachan ...
10/24/08 - THIS JUST IN: If you thought the TARP program is just for banks, thrifts and Wal ...
10/17/08 - In a few weeks our tired, our hungry, our poor mortgage finance firms yearning to be fr ...
10/10/08 - In a week or so mortgage professionals and those who make their living from residential ...
10/3/08 - Mike Covino has been making jumbo and "super-jumbo" loans for 27 years. Even tho ...
9/26/08 - As one reader pointed out, it's starting to feel a bit like the movie "Groundhog Day ...
9/19/08 - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: Welcome to the new, socialized mortgage banking system ...
9/12/08 - THIS JUST IN: It could be a busy Sunday again at the Treasury Department ...
9/5/08 - THIS JUST IN: Now that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (with Treasury's bless ...
8/29/08 - THIS JUST IN: Merrill Lynch this week confirmed that it is keeping its su ...
8/22/08 - THIS JUST IN: Merrill Lynch�s attempt to sell its Pittsburgh-based subpri ...
8/15/08 - This week we present a special treat; a sneak peek at Paul Muolo and co-author Mathew P ...
8/8/08 - By now, Freddie Mac chief Dick Syron must be scratching his head, wonderi ...
8/1/08 - THIS JUST IN: Yet another major wholesale lender is pulling the plug on using lo ...
7/25/08 - Mortgage bankers and brokers that specialize in FHA (or want to) start your engi ...
7/18/08 - This week we present a special treat; a sneak peek at Paul Muolo and co-author Mathew P ...
7/11/08 - It's always darkest before dawn, right? On Friday, with Fannie and ...
7/7/08 - It's no secret that origination volumes are suffering - but none are suffering more tha ...
6/27/08 - AN EDITORIAL: "Unprecedented," is what one high placed Washington source ...
6/20/08 - Former Fannie Mae chief Jim Johnson is nobody's fool. He and his wife Maxine ...
6/13/08 - When Will Mortgages Recover? Let's Talk About Oil We're appr ...
6/6/08 - THIS JUST IN: National Mortgage News is about to publish its 1Q ed ...
5/30/08 - THIS JUST IN: Bill Beckmann, president of CitiMortgage, will leave ...
5/23/08 - THIS JUST IN: Craig Pica, the owner of Provident Funding Associates of Bu ...
5/16/08 - A lot of ink has been spilled about lenders working diligently with homeowners who cann ...
5/9/08 - Back in 1969 while sitting at a kitchen table in Manhattan, two out-of-work mortgage pr ...
5/2/08 - He's back: Bill Dallas. Mr. Dallas, who founded both First Franklin and ...
4/25/08 - THIS JUST IN: It appears that steel magnate Wilbur Ross is still moving a ...
4/18/08 - Yet another major HELOC lender is clamping down on what type of seconds it will fund an ...
4/11/08 - How do we know when we've hit a bottom in any market -- mortgage or otherwise? The expe ...
4/4/08 - THIS JUST IN: The head of whole loan trading at one Wall Street firm/bank depart ...
3/28/08 - For three months now a source familiar with the situation has been telling us that C ...
3/20/08 - Let's start with the funeral -- no, not the Bear Stearns funeral but we'll get t ...
3/17/08 - First, let's start with some good news. According to the brand-new issue of the Quar ...
3/7/08 - On Friday the House Oversight Committee had its crack at Angelo Mozilo, ...
2/29/08 - Stan O'Neal's $1.3 billion mistake came home to roost this past week with the ne ...
2/21/08 - THIS JUST IN: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may want to start staff ...
2/15/08 - THIS JUST IN: JPMorgan Chase has agreed to buy certain "intellectual ...
2/8/08 - THIS JUST IN: It appears that H&R Block has a buyer for the $62 billi ...
2/1/08 - Here's something to think about: In the fourth quarter of 2007 Fannie Mae bought ...
1/25/08 - THIS JUST IN: Credit Suisse late last week moved to consolidate several of its m ...
1/18/08 - THIS JUST IN: Look for an announcement from Credit Suisse late next week ...
1/11/08 - THIS JUST IN: Friedman Billings Ramsey on Friday pulled the plug on its s ...
1/4/08 - THIS JUST IN: Shabi Asghar, who founded subprime wholesaler Encore Cre ...
12/28/07 - One question some of you might be asking is this: if subprime volumes have screeched to ...
12/21/07 - It probably won't be a merry Christmas for ex-Bear Stearns managing director ...
12/14/07 - If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac keep raising their �g-fees� they might just ...
12/1/07 - The implosion in the subprime sector came home to roost in the third quarter with A- to ...
11/26/07 - As I continue to do research into the subprime crisis, time is at a premium. What I'm d ...
11/17/07 - THIS JUST IN: One mortgage executive close to Morgan Stanley's Saxon M ...
11/10/07 - If you thought that yield-spread premiums might be outlawed by Congress, think again. I ...
11/3/07 - Addendum: Readers, in the column below I made a mistake in discussing yield spread ...
10/20/07 - Over the past 12 months, roughly 200 mortgage banking firms and/or channel platforms ha ...
10/13/07 - If you're looking for ground zero in the foreclosure crisis it's not necessarily Califo ...
10/6/07 - THIS JUST IN: Deutsche Bank on Tuesday trimmed staff at its alt-A/convent ...
9/29/07 - Last week, we reported how loan brokers were getting blamed for the nation's current mo ...
9/22/07 - What a week in Washington! In Capitol Hill testimony on Thursday loan brokers were por ...
9/15/07 - We got the chance to conduct a brief interview with Countrywide Home Loans ...
9/8/07 - Lost in the press release about Citigroup buying Ameriquest's servicing p ...
9/1/07 - In its Monday edition, National Mortgage News is publishing its exclusive ...
8/25/07 - So, what does Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo really think of the Merrill ...
8/18/07 - Before we get to this week's carnage I'm going to offer two pieces of good news. Why? B ...
8/11/07 - On Friday morning the Federal Reserve added $19 billion in liquidity to the mark ...
8/4/07 - I'll put it bluntly: if you operate a non-depository mortgage firm (lender or servicer) ...
7/21/07 - Paul Muolo is on vacation this week. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
7/14/07 - Not only is Aegis Mortgage shutting its home-equity division, but the lender is ...
7/7/07 - Paul Muolo was on vacation last week. We're running this story in place of his usual ...
6/30/07 - A hedge fund whose identity we know is having subprime-related problems similar to B ...
6/23/07 - Is the Bear Stearns hedge fund debacle the subprime Chernobyl we all feared or a ...
6/16/07 - Weekend Update readers: We're still putting the finishing touches on our annual data di ...
6/9/07 - Weekend update readers: I've been busy crunching to get our annual data directory/analy ...
6/2/07 - THIS JUST IN: Two more managers for All Fund Mortgage have stepped forwar ...
5/26/07 - We got us an industry catfight! As President Bush once said: Bring it on! This t ...
5/19/07 - Are non-depository subprime funders beginning to see some relief in the secondary marke ...
5/12/07 - Fannie Mae plans to tighten its underwriting guidelines on certain loans especia ...
5/5/07 - Net branch operator All Fund Mortgage of Washington state has lost another top o ...
4/28/07 - Are hedge funds the only bidders out there making serious offers for subprime firms? Is ...
4/21/07 - Countrywide Financial Corp. is creating a new 15-person unit in Calabasas, Calif ...
4/14/07 - THIS JUST IN: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is holding an invitatio ...
3/31/07 - Despite reports to the contrary, Sunset Direct Lending is still in business. Com ...
3/24/07 - THIS JUST IN: HSBC Mortgage Services of Ft. Mill, N.C., is exiting the su ...
3/17/07 - What exactly are criminal investigators looking at in regard to New Century Financia ...
3/10/07 - THIS JUST IN: Early Monday morning it appeared that New Century Financial Cor ...
3/3/07 - THIS JUST IN: Yet another large subprime lender is having trouble and appears to ...
2/24/07 - Let's start off this weekend's column with some, well, good news. It's out there -- you ...
2/17/07 - Merrill Lynch's actions in regard to margin calls on its mortgage banking client ...
2/10/07 - In some quarters it's being called a liquidity crisis, the likes that haven't been seen ...
2/3/07 - Should loan brokers be held accountable for all the early payment defaults that are ham ...
1/27/07 - Could it be that the mortgage industry would get through a whole week without another f ...
1/20/07 - Just when you thought the strange tale of Mortgage Lenders Network couldn't get ...
1/13/07 - THIS JUST IN: At least two more midsized subprime firms -- both non-depositories ...
1/6/07 - When Ownit Mortgage went bust in early December, all eyes looked to its warehous ...
12/23/06 - Is Citigroup bidding on the mortgage operations of ABN Amro? It's hard to ...
12/16/06 - There's an interesting little story concerning buybacks making the rounds (that I can't ...
12/9/06 - This just in: Mortgage Lenders Network of Connecticut issued a short statement e ...
12/8/06 - Now that New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed mortgage-related ...
12/2/06 - This just in: we understand that two broker-dealers are taking a close look at Optio ...
11/25/06 - Stop the presses! GMAC-owned ditech.com has pulled the plug on its " ...
11/18/06 - It seems the revolving door to the executive suite is spinning faster at plenty of lend ...
11/11/06 - This just in: Lehman Brothers has picked a new CEO for its BNC Mortgage u ...
11/4/06 - We're told that even though production volumes are slipping, some account executives ar ...
10/28/06 - The Colorado attorney general is expected to subpoena at least 10 mortgage firms in the ...
10/21/06 - Private-equity firms are starting to sniff around the mortgage business, investment ba ...
10/14/06 - Some industry executives are telling us there's a growing wave of refinancings sweeping ...
10/7/06 - For years, Friedman Billings Ramsey was the "holy roller" of mortgage ...
9/30/06 - We all know that Wells Fargo Home Mortgage has overtaken Countrywide as t ...
9/23/06 - Not only is Countrywide Financial Corp. slashing 5% to 10% of its general and ad ...
9/16/06 - This coming Wednesday two Senate subcommittees will tackle the sticky issue of & ...
9/9/06 - In the end, David Sambol got the big job. Officially speaking, Countrywide ...
9/2/06 - What's going on with National City Mortgage these days? A few weeks back, ...
8/26/06 - Even though the housing market is caught in what could turn out to be an ugly downward ...
8/19/06 - Two more nonconforming mortgage companies are on the auction block. For the full story ...
7/29/06 - Deutsche Bank wants to purchase small-balance commercial mortgages and is in the ...
7/22/06 - Just when the industry thought the business of selling bulk servicing rights was in the ...
7/15/06 - At least five Wall Street firms are actively in the hunt to buy mortgage banking franch ...
7/8/06 - Payment option ARMs are evil and will be the death of all mankind. That's the opinion o ...
7/1/06 - It seems that quite a few research firms have been ordering data lately from Nati ...
6/24/06 - When consumers suffer, mortgage bankers suffer. A new survey conducted by Roper Publ ...
6/17/06 - THIS JUST IN: It looks as though the bank-owned Irwin Mortgage -- a top 4 ...
6/10/06 - The stock market got the crap kicked out of it again this past week. As we went to pres ...
6/3/06 - Insurance giant American International Group has been in the news the past year ...
5/27/06 - In a brief interview with National Mortgage News last week, Countrywid ...
5/20/06 - THIS JUST IN: It appears that Frank Curry, former president of Acousti ...
5/13/06 - THIS JUST IN: Deutsche Bank is reportedly talking to a New Jersey-based m ...
5/6/06 - This past week was one of the ugliest in recent memory for the industry. Ameriquest ...
4/29/06 - THIS JUST IN: Washington Mutual's production chief, Tony Meola, ha ...
4/22/06 - Citigroup is doing away with its CitiFinancial subprime brand. The compan ...
4/8/06 - A task force for the Mortgage Bankers Association has taken the forceful positio ...
4/1/06 - Secondary market buyers of nonprime loans are starting to see a noticeable increase in ...
3/25/06 - Twice a year National Mortgage News publishes its exclusive research repo ...
3/18/06 - Twice a year National Mortgage News publishes its exclusive research repo ...
3/11/06 - It appears that Alan Greenspan's public hand wringing about interest-only loans ...
3/4/06 - Montgomery County politician Tom Perez wasn't a popular person in Maryland mortg ...
2/25/06 - A top-ranked subprime lender is among the finalists for Irwin Mortgage of Indian ...
2/18/06 - What is it with Southern California and nonprime mortgage bankers anyway? Take a look a ...
2/11/06 - Investment banking firms increasingly are buying notable stakes (4% or more) in publicl ...
2/4/06 - This just in: fourth - quarter production volumes were decent, but all lenders (prime a ...
1/28/06 - Here's how the big layoff went down at Aurora Loan Services last Wednesday: the ...
1/21/06 - In what might be a sign of the times subprime giant Aegis Mortgage has tossed it ...
1/14/06 - It certainly is starting to get interesting in mortgage land. Here's just a taste: W ...
1/7/06 - The "back story" to ABN Amro's $41 million settlement with the governm ...
12/23/05 - First the good news: it appears the multifamily market could be poised for modest growt ...
12/17/05 - Chase Home Finance has ended its experiment of having two co-CEOs of mortgage fi ...
12/10/05 - This just in: investment banking sources say both Bank of America and Wells F ...
12/3/05 - Reading the tealeaves of mortgage banking is never easy. I remember back in 2000 when t ...
11/25/05 - Maybe the immediate future of the industry doesn't look so gruesome after all. As we we ...
11/18/05 - This just in: the third quarter was a blowout for the industry. According to Nati ...
11/11/05 - Did the press bury the lead in regard to Fannie Mae's conference call on Thursda ...
11/4/05 - According to National Mortgage News' brand new Loan Officer Report (LO ...
10/29/05 - Short sellers are loading up on mortgage - related stocks. In mid -October, speculators ...
10/22/05 - Which two finalists are vying for General Motors Acceptance Corp? Hint: one's a ...
10/15/05 - By now we've heard the stories about several loan brokers earning $1 million a year in ...
10/8/05 - Is Maryland's most prosperous county looking to ban mortgage brokers? According to the ...
10/1/05 - If there is a single transaction that's causing sleepless nights (as in possible jail t ...
9/24/05 - This past week the statistical arm of National Mortgage News received thr ...
9/16/05 - National Mortgage News is putting the finishing touches on its brand-new ...
9/9/05 - It seems as though disasters bring out the best in Americans. Down in Baton Rouge where ...
9/2/05 - Will the human and economic calamity caused by Hurricane Katrina force the Federal R ...
8/27/05 - Interest-only loans accounted for 26% of all mortgages funded in the second quarter, ac ...
8/20/05 - Our hats are off to Countrywide Home Loans, which was not only the No. 1 ranked ...
8/13/05 - Well, it's finally ready: National Mortgage News' new "Loan Origi ...
7/30/05 - This just in: Credit Suisse First Boston has extended the expiration date on its ...
7/23/05 - It seems the old gang at Cohane Rafferty Securities, a once - prominent deal mak ...
7/16/05 - I caught the last two hours of HUD's "public" RESPA forum on Thursday. Here's ...
7/2/05 - The general media is going ga-ga over interest-only loans and not exactly in a good way ...
6/25/05 - If you thought RESPA reform was dead, think again. On Monday June 27 Housing and Urb ...
6/11/05 - Late this past week Wayne Lee resigned as chief executive of Ameriquest Mortg ...
6/4/05 - As we went to press this weekend the yield on the 10-year Treasury was at 3.98%, but on ...
5/27/05 - If you're looking for an update on the shakeup at the Lehman Brothers - owned ...
5/20/05 - Lehman Brothers, to some degree, has reorganized its Finance America whol ...
5/13/05 - Despite what you may be hearing or reading, it appears that the Treasury Department ...
5/6/05 - Now, why the heck would investor Kirk Kerkorian want to own so much General M ...
4/30/05 - When in doubt bring in the experts. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle has hi ...
4/23/05 - When the going gets tough, the tough members of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattl ...
4/16/05 - Testifying before the Senate Banking ...
4/9/05 - It's too bad subcommittee chairman Rep. Richard Baker has his hands full with th ...
3/26/05 - The negative publicity machine regarding subprime loan pricing (thanks to new HMDA ...
3/19/05 - Loan brokers take note: Alan Fishbein of the Consumer Federation of America ...
3/12/05 - Is the idea of legislating a flat guarantee fee (g-fee) for all Fannie Mae/Freddie M ...
3/5/05 - Who was the top jumbo lender in the fourth quarter? If you said Washington Mutual go to ...
2/26/05 - It looks as though our friends to the north at Royal Bank of Canada want out of ...
2/19/05 - Before we contemplate Alan Greenspan's recent GSE comments, let's ask a basic qu ...
2/12/05 - The Mortgage Bankers Association called to let us know that Wells Fargo Home ...
2/5/05 - It appears that Wells Fargo Home Mortgage was the skunk at the MBA garden ...
1/29/05 - Critics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have long argued that the two have ...
1/22/05 - This coming week National Mortgage News, Origination News a ...
1/15/05 - Yet another Wall Street firm is entering the subprime market. This time around it's ...
1/8/05 - After President Bush was re-elected we ran a story or two discussing the possibi ...
12/25/04 - Amid the financial and political meltdown of Fannie Mae, mortgage executives (as ...
12/18/04 - Before we get to Fannie Mae, National Mortgage News has learned th ...
12/11/04 - Christmas is coming a little early this year to shareholders in title insurance giant, ...
12/4/04 - Thanks Fannie Mae. Just when housing finance reporters thought they could take i ...
11/27/04 - Even though residential loan volumes have been dropping -- at $663 billion the third qu ...
11/20/04 - Remember that $8 billion servicing portfolio that Guaranty Residential Lending ...
11/13/04 - Remember that $8 billion servicing portfolio that Guaranty Residential Lending ...
11/6/04 - THIS JUST IN: The Bush administration may try to eliminate the mortgage i ...
10/30/04 - The Special Election Column By now you're sick of all the presidential p ...
10/24/04 - Countrywide CEO and chairman Angelo Mozilo believes Fannie Mae and ...
10/16/04 - The HELOC market is hot, hot, hot. So is the alternative-A market. Finding good, solid ...
10/9/04 - A criminal referral is a form a regulator files with the Justice Department, sig ...
10/2/04 - When Fannie Mae chairman Franklin Raines testifies before a congressional ...
9/25/04 - Here's a paragraph from OFHEO's scathing report on Fannie Mae's accountin ...
9/11/04 - This just in: Morgan Stanley's Ken Posner, one of the most respected analysts in ...
9/4/04 - Is it a load of nonsense that the residential lending sector is consolidating rapidly a ...
8/28/04 - Goldman Sachs & Co. has yet to say boo about its subprime/nonconforming cond ...
8/21/04 - Want to find out who the top online lenders were in the first and sec ...
8/14/04 - As most of the mortgage world already knows, Cendant Mortgage ...
8/7/04 - The Mortgage Industry Directory is finally out and available, ...
7/17/04 - Dan Phillips of First Plus infamy, phone home! Hey, may ...
7/3/04 - This just in: more heads are expected to roll at the Federal Home ...
6/26/04 - The U.S. housing market could get rocked soon. Then again, maybe not. ...
6/19/04 - In some industry circles, mortgages backed by the Federal Housing ...
6/12/04 - National Mortgage News is in the throes of finishing it ...
6/5/04 - The annual convention of the National Association of Mortgage Brok ...
5/29/04 - Remember this quote from Layne Sapp, the founder and chief exe ...
5/22/04 - In February, Jeffrey Todd Hood applied for an AE job with A ...
5/15/04 - The cross-selling of mortgages and insurance is dead! It shouldn't be ...
5/8/04 - Usually, when your regulator tells you to do something most financial ...
5/1/04 - General Electric Mortgage Insurance has always been one of the ...
4/24/04 - As everyone in the industry knows, mortgage rates have risen noticeab ...
4/17/04 - Hail the yield on the 10-year Treasury. Mortgages are pegged to it an ...
4/3/04 - Come year-end, will Franklin Raines be Fannie Mae's cha ...
3/27/04 - The sale of Cendant Mortgage to a top ranked mortgage banker f ...
3/20/04 - As the weekend approached it became clear that John Korsmo's e ...
3/13/04 - RESPA day is March 15. (We think.) No one is quite sure what the O ...
3/6/04 - Sources say Principal Residential Mortgage (that "other&q ...
2/28/04 - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which last week were critic ...
2/27/04 - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which last week were critic ...
2/21/04 - National Mortgage News and its affiliate, the Quarte ...
2/14/04 - Countrywide Financial can no longer resist the cost savings of ...
2/7/04 - Will Congress this year pass legislatio ...
1/31/04 - Interviews with mortgage executives indicate that the mortgage " ...
1/24/04 - General Electric last week filed an 'S1' statement with the ...
1/23/04 - General Electric last week filed an 'S1' statement with the ...
1/17/04 - A large bank that doesn't have a major presence in mortgages is on th ...
1/16/04 - A large bank that doesn't have a major presence in mortgages is on th ...
1/10/04 - The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight thinks oust ...
1/3/04 - So, what were the biggest mortgage-related stories in 2003? According ...
1/2/04 - So, what were the biggest mortgage-related stories in 2003? According ...
12/27/03 - The Pre-New Year's Edition: ...
12/20/03 - The Special Holiday Edition: ...
12/19/03 - The Special Holiday Edition: Guess who packed his bags an ...
12/13/03 - If you have some spare time ...
12/6/03 - A top-10 mortgage banker is ...
11/22/03 - Once again (and just a few ...
11/15/03 - Things are starting to rock ...
11/8/03 - ...
11/1/03 - Something to think about: I ...
10/25/03 - Late last week ...
10/18/03 - Even though some mortgag ...
10/11/03 - Department of Housing and Urban Developmen ...
10/4/03 - It appears (for now at least) that new produc ...
9/27/03 - Quick, hire back all those laid off "temp" workers that you fired in late Aug ...
9/20/03 - While Hurricane Isabel lashed the nation's capital late t ...
9/13/03 - Maybe the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago's "mortgage partnership finance ...
9/6/03 - HUD secretary Mel Martinez went on CNBC Wednesday afternoon to discuss th ...
8/30/03 - As the sun went down on Friday afternoon journalists that cover the mortgage industry ( ...
8/23/03 - Will retired Fannie Mae chairman James Johnson come back into the mortgag ...
8/16/03 - The 10-year Treasury is the God of mortgage banking and smart mortgage bankers watch th ...
7/26/03 - Fairbanks Capital's ex-president Mark Finston is talking to investigators ...
6/28/03 - FREDDIE MAC RESTATEMENT/ ACCOUNTING SCANDAL, WEEK #3: In the wake of the shakeup ...
6/21/03 - This past week was Freddie Mac accounting scandal, week No. 2. On Monday N ...
6/14/03 - THE FREDDIE MAC SCANDAL: ...
6/6/03 - It looks as though more turmoil is ahead for the nation's top subprime subservicer, ...
5/31/03 - According to figures compiled by National Mortgage News, residential deli ...
5/24/03 - It s official: first quarter residential production totaled a startling $913 billion. A ...
5/17/03 - Don't look back Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo, Countrywide is ...
5/10/03 - Mark Tuesday May 6, 2003 on your calendars. It may very w ...
5/3/03 - Is consolidation about to sweep the subprime mortgage sector? Who knows but that didn't ...
4/26/03 - A group of lawyers are considering buying a "mortgage - company - in - a - box&quo ...
4/12/03 - It hasn't been a pleasant spring for subprime servicing giant Fairbanks Capital. ...
4/5/03 - Those in attendance at the legislative conference of the NAMB this past week hea ...
3/22/03 - I hear that Felix Beck (who sold Margaretten & Co. to Chase se ...
3/15/03 - When it was first learned that Fannie Mae would make a $70 million "floor b ...
3/8/03 - Bill Starkey Sr. of AccuBanc fame is back. Sources say Mr. Starkey -- wit ...
3/1/03 - Are some loan brokers millionaires? According to a recent Wall Street Journal ...
2/22/03 - Fannie Mae caused a bit of a stir late last week when it confirmed that it had m ...
2/15/03 - In the fourth quarter, subprime giant Household International sold $3.8 billion ...
2/8/03 - After years of trying (but not trying too hard), Alltel finally sold its mortgag ...
2/1/03 - After years of trying (but not trying too hard), Alltel finally sold its mortgag ...
1/25/03 - What future is there for the Mortgage Partnership Finance program if the examina ...
1/18/03 - Depending on what happens with the governor and the state legislature in Trenton, subpr ...
1/11/03 - Not since the heydays of Salomon Brothers and Lew Ranieri has Wall Street ...
1/4/03 - Here are some indicators to watch in the months ahead: Oil is now at $32.65 a barrel, a ...
12/28/02 - The Federal Reserve thinks MBS issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie ...
12/21/02 - Look for the Lehman Brothers-owned Aurora Loan Services of Colorado to ra ...
12/14/02 - The 19 or so Capital Hill staffers who were paid $200 each (for one hour of work) givin ...
12/7/02 - Based on some of the bigger "stock-relat ...
11/30/02 - Mortgage Scene Viewing Into Crystal Ball for 2003 It's n ...
11/23/02 - The M&A market for "name" mortgage firms has been mostly dead of late (ev ...
11/16/02 - In the mortgage industry, it doesn't get any better than this. Then again that's what w ...
11/9/02 - UBS Paine Webber has been quietly building a retail mortgage effort to provide r ...
11/2/02 - Refis forever? Some days lenders scratch their heads wondering just when -- if ever -- ...
10/26/02 - B>Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., wants OFHEO to brief him on what it knows about ...
10/20/02 - The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago's "Mortgage Partnership Finance" ...
10/12/02 - FM Watch director Mike House often likes to say that when a former Hill R ...
9/21/02 - Getting sick of the refi boom? You may not be alone. The 10-year Treasury (which most m ...
9/14/02 - Subprime production volumes are booming, at least that's what the new Quarterly ...
9/8/02 - Specialty servicer Ocwen Financial (NYSE: OCN) hasn't had much good news ...
8/31/02 - It was another week of excruciating bad news for subprime ...
8/24/02 - As most mortgage professionals know, the subprime busines ...
8/17/02 - More than two years ago National Mortgage News first reported that Fan ...
8/10/02 - Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac getting short changed on the guarantee fee ...
8/3/02 - Encore Credit Corp. of Irvine, Calif. funded its first loan back in March. In the secon ...
7/13/02 - When banks begin buying, the market must be at a peak. Mortgage professionals know all ...
7/6/02 - The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago's "Mortgage Partnership Finance" ...
6/29/02 - Business appears to be rocking at Nexstar Financial Corp., St. Louis, a provider ...
6/22/02 - The Government National Mortgage Association is coming off a record year in whic ...
6/15/02 - The biggest "current" mystery in mortgage banking is the identity of the buye ...
6/8/02 - Is Fannie Mae ready to take over the subprime market? Not exactly but a r ...
6/1/02 - Mortgage brokers and wholesale funders take note: On Friday the yield on the 10-year Tr ...
5/25/02 - Countrywide's stock crossed over the $50 a share threshold on Friday, just a tad ...
5/18/02 - It appears the Government National Mortgage Association has yet to commit any of ...
5/11/02 - Ex-HomeSide Lending CFO Blake Wilson has been hired as CFO of Alliance ...
5/5/02 - The market for "flow" servicing deals is anemic these days, says MIAC' ...
4/27/02 - In the last Weekend Briefing we quoted FM Watch spokeswoman Ben ...
4/20/02 - FM Watch complained that last weekend's update item concerning Fannie Mae ...
4/13/02 - In the second-half of last year Fannie Mae spent $3.57 million on lobbying, acco ...
3/23/02 - The huge success that GMAC-RFC has experienced in the subprime securitization ma ...
3/16/02 - Loan volumes have been fairly strong in January and February -- but not for everyone. A ...
3/9/02 - BancOne is in the hunt for another bank and apparently it wouldn't mind buying one with ...
3/2/02 - A lot has been reported and said about derivatives and their use by Fannie Mae, ...
2/23/02 - It was quite a year for the residential finance sector in 2001 -- a record year, in fac ...
2/16/02 - Move over Chase Manhattan Mortgage. For several years now Chase has been the num ...
2/9/02 - By 2020 the mortgage industry should be posting "economic" profits of $79 bil ...
2/2/02 - Slip Sliding away: In the third quarter G.E. Capital Mortgage Insurance, Raleigh ...
1/26/02 - For as long as we can remember Prism Mortgage, Chicago, has be ...
1/19/02 - Residential lenders are starting to report their loan volumes for the ...
1/12/02 - Are mortgage rates headed lower? On Friday Federal Reserve Chairman ...
1/5/02 - There has been a bit of a controversy about a $2.5 million line of cr ...
12/30/01 - Industry executives continue to talk about what kind of pricing power ...
12/22/01 - Short sellers are increasing their bets against American Home Mortgage Holdin ...
12/16/01 - Lost among all the hoopla this past week of Washington Mutual ...
12/9/01 - Residential Mortgage Services of Houston, Texas, is throwing i ...