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Floify’s new platform aims to provide flexible pricing for mortgage lenders

Housing Wire

Configured to give independent mortgage banks, federally insured banks and credit unions the needed tools at an accessible price point, Floify Lender Edition aims to increase lender profitability through its automated processes and efficiency tools, the company said. Founded in 2013, Floify — a subsidiary of Porch Group Inc. —

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Opinion: FHA should lower Mortgage Insurance Premium

Housing Wire

Simply put, it looks at all the insured loans in the single-family business and factors in expected interest rates, home price forecast, default rates and severity rates over the entire duration of these loans, some of which will be on the books for 30 years. What is the capital reserve ratio? Just look at HUD’s own data on FHA lending: 1.

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Fannie Mae launches eighth CAS note offering this year

Housing Wire

With the completion of this eighth CAS transaction of 2022, Fannie Mae will have brought a total of 52 CAS deals to market since the program was started in 2013 , issued some $58 billion in notes, and transferred a portion of the credit risk to private investors on over $1.9

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Fannie Mae executes CIRT deals on $31B of single-family loans

Housing Wire

Fannie Mae announced on Monday that it has executed two new Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) deals: CIRT 2023-2 and CIRT 2023-3. The deals, which include over $31 billion in single-family mortgage loans, are designed to reduce risk to taxpayers by increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market.

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Fannie Mae notches two more CIRT deals  

Housing Wire

Fannie Mae has executed two new Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (CIRT) deals — the seventh and eighth of 2022 — dubbed CIRT 2022-7 and CIRT 2022-8. The two transactions convey a combined $1 billion in mortgage credit risk to private insurers and re-insurers as part of the agency’s ongoing effort to share risk with the private sector.

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CRT protects GSEs, taxpayers from unexpected disasters

Housing Wire

After reading the recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency on the performance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’ s credit risk transfer programs, anyone unfamiliar with the purposes of CRT might understandably conclude that the GSEs vastly overpaid capital market investors and insurance providers to transfer credit risk off their books.

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Freddie Mac’s CRT program posts record performance 

Housing Wire

The offering totals were across the agency’s flagship Structured Agency Credit Risk (STACR) and Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) programs, along with other risk-sharing transactions. Through the A CIS transactions, a portion of the credit risk on mortgages backed by Fannie and Freddie is shifted to insurers in the private sector.

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