Ex-Wyndham Capital Mortgage exec launches Cornerstone Home LoansÂ
Donny Kirby discusses the challenges he faces with starting a new mortgage brokerage shop and how he plans to scale his business.
Donny Kirby discusses the challenges he faces with starting a new mortgage brokerage shop and how he plans to scale his business.
Homebridge will lay off 139 employees in June, three months after CMG acquired its retail division, according to a WARN notice filed in New Jersey.
It hasnât been a good few weeks for banks whose names begin with âSiâ (Silvergate, Silicon Valley, and Signature, with Silicon Valley Bank declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning; todayâs Rundown discusses how the bank crisis may impact lenders). Ah, those clever secondary marketing folks. Cornerstoneâs Henry S. frets, âI canât believe itâs bank collapse season already. I just finished taking down my train derailment decorations.â Certainly, time flies by, and I hope youâre wearing some green today. Originally a religious holiday to honor St. Patrick, who introduced Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century, St. Patrickâs Day has evolved into a celebration of all things Irish, with the first parade on March 17, 1762, in New York City, featuring Irish soldiers who served in the English military. It certainly is more fun to think about celebrating the Irish than the constant stream of headlines as people race to conjecture about the health of world banking, and people crying âshoulda woulda coulda.â The markets seem to be performing a stress test on the Fed. The Federal Reserveâs (Fedâs) tightening seems to be finally having an effect, and an early victim has been smaller banks that did a poor job of managing interest rate and deposit concentration risk. (Todayâs podcast can be found here and this week is sponsored by Richey May, a recognized leader in providing specialized advisory, audit, tax, technology, and other services in the mortgage industry and in banking.)
The Ides of March⦠And college basketball time. Here in Kentucky (men #6 in the East, Louisville womenâs team #5) I overheard someone on the phone. âYesterday I saw a woman in Walmart with March Madness teeth. She was down to her final four.â March Madness is in full swing, whether it is hoops or bonds. Or bank stocks. Is this really a fundamental structural plunging of the United Statesâ financial system? Doubtful. Moodyâs came out with a warning about downgrading certain banks in the United States. It is not 2008. How much of this is psychology? Tweeting causing a run on deposits? Banks everywhere are looking at their liabilities (deposits, since they owe their depositors money) and assets (the money lent out using their depositorâs money, or securities owned. âLending long and borrowing shortâ works when banks can pay very little on their deposits (like checking accounts earning 0 percent) and take that money and earn 4 or 6 percent on securities. But when the deposit base becomes unstable, and a bank has to liquidate those securities at 80 or 90 cents on the dollar, it becomes a problem fast. (Much more below.) Todayâs podcast can be found here and this week is sponsored by Richey May, a recognized leader in providing specialized advisory, audit, tax, technology, and other services in the mortgage industry and in banking. Todayâs has an interview with Bank of England Mortgageâs Quinton Harris on the art and science of forecasting the housing, mortgage, and bond markets.
Impac Mortgage Holdings is repositioning itself as a mortgage brokerage and voluntarily giving up its seller-servicer designation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Headwinds in mortgage remain strong. Home Point CEO Willie Newman said Home Point owners would consider a dialogue about a sale.
Nonbank Homebridge Financial Services is narrowing its focus on wholesale lending after selling its retail division to CMG Mortgage. CMG has purchased Homebridge’s retail branch network and a chunk of its mortgage servicing portfolio for an undisclosed sum. In a statement, CMG said the deal “significantly increases the footprint of CMG’s retail division, further solidifying … [Read more…]
California-based CMG Mortgage, Inc. struck a deal to acquire the retail division of Homebridge Financial Services, the companies announced on Monday.