Article: Under Wall Street ownership: a growing number of Wall Street investment banks and other active issuers of mortgage-backed securities are becoming direct owners of mortgage originators. Is this a lasting trend?(Industry Trends)

Is Wall Street taking over the mortgage origination business? A glance at this year's mortgage industry headlines could leave one with that impression. [??] A slew of deals involving Wall Street investment-banking firms buying mortgage originators has some wondering just how deeply Wall Street will delve into the mortgage origination business, and whether or not the trend will last. [??] The deals are all part of a move by Wall Street investment firms and big banks to vertically integrate their mortgage securitization operations. Virtually all of the purchases by Wall Street have been of either alternative-A or nonprime mortgage originators. Having ready access to those ...

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