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What's Being Done to Prevent Forbearance From Crushing The Mortgage Industry?

3/30/2020


Posted To: MND NewsWire

Among responses to the job losses and reduced income already emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic has been a moratorium on foreclosures and a requirement, coming from many quarters, that servicers offer mortgage borrowers an extended period of forbearance from their mortgage payments. This has raised an issue regarding the liquidity of those servicers. Late last week Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin announced formation of a task force to focus on mortgage liquidity problems and has given them until March 30 to present their recommendation. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) outlined the servicers' potential forbearance problem in a March 20 letter to Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell. Under contracts with investors who purchase mortgage-backed securities (MBS), servicers...(read more)

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