“I’ve had $8,000 in my bank account and I’ve had $8. Let me tell you, the $8 lasted longer.” $42 billion in deposits didn’t last long in Silicon Valley Bank. Until lunch, basically, as money was silently transferred to other depositories in a matter of hours. Western Alliance is in the headlines today, and at another “headline” bank, First Republic Bank’s stock price plummeted down but has leveled off since, although the stock is trading at such a discount to book value that there is talk of a buyer coming in, or the government finding one. The financial turmoil that erupted from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse (CS), and others roiled the markets but has since simmered down. And the situation makes the job of central banks around the world attempting to engineer a soft landing to avoid a recession more difficult. Events in the banking system might also "contribute to significant tightening in credit con
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John F. Kennedy has been gone nearly 60 years, and Jackie Kennedy (Onassis) nearly 30, but the couple still resonates with people. The first home that they owned as a married couple is for sale in Washington DC. If you’re ever in a guessing game about the most expensive places to live in the United States, stick with the safe bets: New York and anything California. Seems the press has latched on to declining home sales, but declining due to high prices, lack of inventory, or lack of buyer’s interest? Other stories indicated increasing home sales, but in certain price ranges, more builder inventory, or continued Millennial first-time home buyer interest? Take your pick. Meanwhile, lenders and originators have their continued regulatory speedbumps. Orrick reports that, “The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), on behalf of the NMLS Policy Committee, issued a request for public comments on proposed uniform state licensing standards for mortgage companies. The
Here in Southern California for the California MBA’s Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference, the topics include RESPA, marketing services agreements and Section 8(a), and compliant low income and affordable housing lending. Speaking of which, Here’s a lousy headline to wake up to: “KeyBank Promised to Increase Low-Income Lending, Then Did the Opposite.” In other news lenders are watching, I don’t care if you don’t believe in climate change. And you don’t care whether or not I do. The point is, insurance companies, pension funds, private MI companies, and investors in mortgage-backed securities do, and the pricing and availability of mortgages, and insurance, in those areas is changing as well. Yet people are flocking to areas plagued by fire, hurricanes, and bed lice. (I threw that last one in to see if you were reading.) (Today’s podcast has an interview with Evergreen’s Robert Lipston on why now is the time for
While we had news today of the British Prime Minister resigning, yesterday my doctor asked if anyone in my family suffers from mental illness. I replied, "No, we all seem to enjoy it." Suffering from a lack of liquidity is the death knell for lenders and certainly nothing to joke about. Want to know the quickest way to shut your business down? Don’t return your warehouse bank’s phone call. In the secondary markets, if no one is interested in buying the products we’re manufacturing, that isn’t good news. So headlines of stories in the Wall Street Journal like, “Recession Fears Hit Risky Mortgage Debt Amid Default Concerns” are a real problem. (Subscription needed.) Housing and lending, “upstream” and “downstream,” is our focus, and economist Elliot Eisenberg summed things up. “With 30-year mortgage rates steadily climbing and now at 7 percent, it is unsurprising the NAHB Housing Market Index f
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