Ocwen Financial Corp.'s acquisition of PHH Corp. will help the nonbank servicer rebuild scale that's been diminished by years of regulatory restrictions and the decline in distressed mortgage volume brought about by improvements in the overall housing market.
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The deadline to seek an en banc hearing has now passed, and skin-in-the-game rules for collateralized loan obligations could be off the books by April 2.
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The deadline to appeal the rollback of risk-retention requirements for CLO managers expired at midnight last night, but Voya Alternative Asset Management is not taking advantage.
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The San Francisco-based online lender reported a net loss of $115 million for 2017, more than half of which was connected to warrants issued in a deal that stabilized the struggling firm.
March 26 -
Banks would welcome a proposal to loosen Basel III capital restrictions because it would make holding mortgage servicing rights easier and stem the recent exodus of depositories from the servicing business, executives said.
March 26 -
An affiliate of the private-equity firm Angel Oak is packaging bank-issued sub debt to minimize risk for bondholders. It recently completed its first securitization and has plans to issue two deals a year.
March 26
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The sponsor has only identified $552 million of collateral for the $610 million deal; it has another four months to put the remaining $88 million to work in additional assets.
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Just over 20% of the balance are hotel loans, including the second-largest loan in the collateral pool, a $59.9 million portion of a $132.9 million loan used in a cashout refinancing of the Hilton Clearwater.
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A new settlement with Massachusetts resolves all outstanding administrative actions against Ocwen Financial Corp. by a group of 30 states, but two states' legal actions against the servicer remain outstanding.
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Together with $26.4 million of unrated notes that the REIT will retain in order to comply with risk retention rules, the total amount outstanding from the American Tower I master trust will be nearly $1.81 billion.
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There was a modest decline in hurricane-related delinquent mortgages in February, a sign that there are lingering problems in the affected markets.
March 22 -
Are American college students using their student loan dollars wisely? A LendEDU study explored how those funds are spent.
March 22 -
The majority of the collateral for the $326 million OBX 2018-1 comes from two called Bear Stearns deals originally issued in 2005; the remainder was acquired by the mortgage REIT in the whole-loan market.
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