Private mortgage insurers wrote just 2% more new business on a year-over-year basis in the second quarter, but market share shifts widened the spread between the six underwriters. The industry-wide market share gap was 1.7 percentage points for both the second quarter 2024 and first quarter of 2025, according to data from Keefe, Bruyette & […]
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Even if conforming mortgage lenders were ready to adopt VantageScore 4.0 tomorrow, several industry players warn that infrastructure and policy alignment are still lacking — and that the road to implementation could be longer and bumpier than it seems. For example, they need to be certain the private mortgage insurers are capable of providing coverage
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Even though Keefe, Bruyette & Woods has downgraded the stock rating on three of the five private mortgage insurers it covers, its analysts are still relatively bullish on the segment. Radian, Essent and NMI Holdings have all been dropped to a market perform rating from outperform in large measure because of their strong performance year-to-date,
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