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From new appointments and rankings to new partnerships and mergers, get the latest industry buzz in this update.

Computershare Loan Service’s Specialized Loan Servicing’s “above average” ranking has been reaffirmed by global ratings agency S&P.

Consolidated Analytics is now approved by S&P Global Ratings as a third-party review firm.

Here are the factors that have led to the rise in increasing default rates on first mortgages, according to a new report.

Although they did see a small uptick as last year ended, first mortgage default rates remained flat year-over-year, according to the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices covering data up through January. According to the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices released ...

Altavera joins a network fewer than a dozen organizations that are included in S&P’s list of reviewed third-party due diligence firms that have met the necessary criteria.

The delinquency rate has declined by 7.3 percent last year, but the latest report states that it has remained stagnant in the later of half of 2016.

Consumer credit defaults as well as mortgage defaults are up from reported rates in May but still remain within a few basis points of the lowest levels seen in 12 years.

Swann and his team wrote in a report to clients that the impasse among lawmakers as to the future of the GSEs, the fact that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been profitable since 2012, and the near recovery of most housing markets have made the privatization of the GSEs or any type of reform unlikely for the foreseeable future.

According to February's first mortgage default index, the rate ticked downward to 1.00 percent in February from 1.02 percent in January after seven months of increases since falling to its lowest level of 0.88 in July 2014. February's first mortgage default rate represents a decline of 23 basis points from February 2014 (1.23 percent). The rate recently experienced its largest increase in the previous 15 months (five basis points) from November to December 2014.