Running feels great unless you compare it to not running. While here in Northern California for a board meeting, I received, “I read your capital markets section every day because I can understand it, but can you please knock off using ‘basis points’? They are confusing.” I admit they take a while to understand, but easy to compare & convert the two. 1 percent is 100 basis points. 50 basis points is ½ of one percent. 75 basis points is ¾ of one percent. I mention this because “seventy-five basis points is the new 50 basis points.” Everyone was expecting ½ percent increases in Fed Funds, but no more. A relentlessly hawkish Federal Reserve is ramping up market expectations for big interest rate hikes that would have been considered unthinkable (and market crippling) just two months ago. Nomura says that the FOMC will hike the fed funds rate by 75-basis points in June and July after a 50-basis point rise in M
ACES Mortgage QC Trends Report covering the third quarter (Q3) of 2021 shows Critical Defect Rate Drops 18%
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Critical Defect Rate Drops 18% in Q3 2021, Per ACES Quality Management Mortgage QC Industry Trends Report
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eNewsChannels NEWS: ACES Quality Management® (ACES), the leading provider of enterprise quality management and control software for the financial services industry, announced the release of its quarterly ACES Mortgage QC Trends Report covering the third quarter (Q3) of 2021. The latest report provides an analysis of post-closing quality control data derived from ACES Quality Management & Control® software. :: News from eNewsChannels
Are you afraid of the day that the Federal Reserve stops buying mortgage-backed securities? “Afraid” is too strong a word. (For many, this activity would define “afraid” … kids, don’t try this at home.) But the largest buyer, of Agency MBS, which now owns 30 percent of outstanding Agency securities, has now sped up the pace of stopping its program. When I worked on a trading desk, back in the Paleozoic era, the saying was, “Don’t fight the Fed.” We can fully expect tighter monetary policy. The bond market, though, doesn’t seem spooked by this news although we are seeing the yield curve flattening. So, what are lenders afraid of? In a poll of lenders during a Sales Boomerang webinar of fears for 2022, the topics listed, in no order