Mortgage lenders overwhelmingly cited improving operational efficiency as their primary motivation for adopting Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, reported Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.
Category: News and Trends
Fitch Ratings: Life Insurers Can Withstand Commercial Real Estate Deterioration
Fitch Ratings, New York, said U.S. life insurers’ ratings are not currently at risk from commercial real estate exposure, due to insurers’ stable investment portfolios, conservative underwriting, strong liquidity and effective asset-liability management.
Velocity Servicing President Matt Stadler Discusses Loan Stress
MBA NewsLink interviewed Velocity Servicing President Matt Stadler about loan stress. Stadler is responsible for all operations of Velocity Servicing, a specialty and component servicer focused on investors in credit-sensitive products (EBOs, NPL/RPL, and high-risk assets), dedicated to turning distressed loans into performing portfolios faster through high-touch customer relationships and advanced data analytics.
PCV Murcor Offering Property Data Collection
PCV Murcor Now Offering Fannie Mae Value Acceptance + Property Data Collection With Our Nationwide Coverage
Voting for 2024 MBA Officers, New & Returning Directors Underway; Deadline Oct. 12
The voting period for the election of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s FY2024 officers and new and returning directors is underway. The voting ends at 5:00 p.m. E.T. on Thursday, October 12, 2023.
MBA’s Broeksmit: Why Mortgage Rates Continue to Rise and What Can Be Done
As mortgage rates reached 23-year highs in MBA’s latest Weekly Applications Survey and application activity fell to a low last seen in 1996, MBA President and CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB, issued the following statement.
MBA Chart of the Week: MBA’s Servicing Operations Study and Forum
MBA’s annual Servicing Operations Study and Forum (SOSF) includes a deep-dive analysis and discussion of servicing costs, productivity, portfolio characteristics, and operational metrics for in‐house single-family servicers.
Servicing Quote Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023
“The speed of these rate increases, and the resulting dislocation in our industry, is painful and unprecedented, absent larger economic turmoil. We understand how severely this is straining your business and the extremely difficult decisions you must make to remain competitive.”
–MBA President and CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB
CoreLogic: Mortgage Delinquencies Remain Near Record Low in July
CoreLogic, Irvine, Calif., released its Loan Performance Insights through July, revealing strong performance–overall delinquencies were 2.7%, still near a record low.
MBA: Mortgage Application Payments Increased Slightly to $2,170 in August
Homebuyer affordability declined in August with the national median payment applied for by purchase applicants increasing to $2,170 from 2,162 in July according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Purchase Applications Payment Index.