RMBS

Mortgage application activity rose 1.1% in the week ending May 20 even as mortgage rates eased back from their recent lows.

For weeks, Republicans have said their objections to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are substantive, and not based on worries about the agency's de facto leader, Elizabeth Warren. But at a House hearing Tuesday, GOP members launched a series of personal attacks on Warren, suggesting she was lying and sometimes interrupting her responses.

A new TransUnion report showed that consumers who only defaulted on their mortgage in the economic recession were far better risks versus those who went delinquent on multiple credit lines such as auto and credit card loans.

In the big picture, while investors counting on muted prepayments today are perhaps not completely ignoring falling rates, they do appear to be less worried about them than government policies.

Residential Credit Solutions (RCS) has issued a newly created RMBS called Residential Credit Solutions Trust 2011-1 totaling $110.68 million. The offering is backed by both current and delinquent residential loans.

South African RMBS issuer Investec Bank is refinancing notes under its program called Private Residential Mortgages (PRM) Ltd - Series 2.

Carrington Mortgage Services and the Attorney General of Ohio have reached an agreement to work collaboratively to help struggling homeowners who are facing foreclosure.

Despite assertions they got off relatively lightly in the Dodd-Frank Act, foreign banks operating in the U.S. are increasingly worried they will be targeted by some of the regulatory reform law's toughest provisions.

Sales of new single-family home sales rose 7.3% in April from the month prior to notch their second straight month of gains — and prices increased — but compared to a year ago the business was still in a depression, registering a 23% slide.

At the end of March, mortgage companies were servicing just shy of $9.5 trillion in home loans, a 4% decline from a year ago, and a sign that foreclosures and ‘cash-in’ refinancings are continuing to play a key role in reducing residential debt.According to figures compiled by National Mortgage News (NMN) and the Quarterly Data Report (QDR), mortgage debt outstanding in the U.S. (servicing rights) peaked at $10.1 trillion in 4Q09. Since then it’s been a steady slide as consumers default on their loans, removing those mortgages from the dockets of the nation’s servicing companies – especially larger players such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo & Co., and Chase.