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Industry veterans launch Canopy in bid to shake up residential due diligence space

Housing Wire

Residential due diligence is an area of the mortgage ecosystem that’s overdue for disruption, according to two industry veterans who want to offer something completely different in the due diligence space through their newly launched company, Canopy. That’s why it has to be done over and over again.”.

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QC Ally acquires due diligence solutions firm Inglet Blair

Housing Wire

Loan quality and audit services company QC Ally on Thursday announced the acquisition of third-party due diligence solutions company Inglet Blair. Founded in 2003, Inglet Blair specializes in the analysis of residential mortgage loans and other forms of secured mortgage-related debt, leaning on ratings-agency approved insight.

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Incenter acquires due diligence firm Edgemac

Housing Wire

Incenter is adding a third-party due diligence review firm to its umbrella of companies. Edgemac , which Incenter acquired at the end of last year, does due diligencing for mostly non-QM and jumbo loans, as well as private label reverse mortgages that could eventually be securitized.

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Loan buybacks haven’t disappeared, but they are trending down

Housing Wire

The loan repurchase trend that began to sting many mortgage originators in 2022 appears to finally be winding down, according to a recent report by Sterling Point Advisors and Augment Analytics. We’re seeing a downward trend in total [loans] repurchased [on a dollar basis], and that’s true for both Fannie and Freddie,” Ludden said. “I

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Private-label loan-vetting comes up short

Housing Wire

The process of vetting loan pools assembled for private-label securitization deals is, to a degree, like sausage-making. A recent report by the Kroll Bond Rating Agency , however, raises a yellow flag about current loan-review practices in the private-label market that requires examination of the sausage-making.

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Underwriter shortage slowing the pace of private-label deals

Housing Wire

The supply-chain bottleneck afflicting the global economy has its own counterpart in the world of residential mortgage-backed securities, also referred to as RMBS. One group of industry players — loan underwriters — are the chief cause of the logjam. About a half-dozen RMBS issuers also were contacted for this story, including J.P.

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Goldman Sachs plants its flag in the jumbo-loan gold rush

Housing Wire

has sponsored 18 private-label transactions so far in 2021 backed by more than 20,000 loans valued collectively at $9.9 Goldman Sachs’ string of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) offerings this year were dominated by a dozen prime jumbo-loan deals backed by loan pools valued at $7.7

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