Shadow banks are taking more than the mortgage market place once again


Shadow banks are around the cusp of taking the lead from their commercial counterparts within the mortgage market, new information suggests, a phenomenon that hasn't been observed because the 2008 economic crisis.

Non-bank lenders, which inhabit the comparatively lightly regulated market, accounted for 48 % of mortgage activity in 2015 - and there is explanation to believe that when all is mentioned and carried out for 2016 that number will develop.

The implications, even though fantastic for an sector that's believed to hold about $80 trillion in assets, carry some dark undertones.

"The last time nonbanks accounted for that much mortgage activity was 2006, the year just before the subprime crisis began," a report from SNL Economic stated this week. (NOTE: The post is behind SNL's pay wall.)

Shadow banks accounted for 55 percent of mortgage activity in 2006; the number was 45 % in 2014 before growing to 48 percent in 2015, as outlined by SNL, citing information in the House Mortgage Disclosure Act.
"We know from separate, non-HMDA data that it has continued into 2016. I feel when the dust has settled on 2016, you'll see nonbanks with close to a 50 % industry share," Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance, told SNL.

Even though shadow banks could eclipse 50 % of share this year, they overall hold about 24 percent of all mortgages, based on a report published earlier this year from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.


The SNL report notes that large banks have pulled back from mortgages, within the face of billions in legal penalties for conduct that led for the 2008 financial crisis. Even though shadow institutions have come beneath greater scrutiny in current years, they nevertheless never face exactly the same regulatory burdens as industrial banks.

As an example, the so-called non-doc or "ninja" loans - no earnings, no job mortgages that have been widespread within the pre-crisis days - are no extra. Significant banks, as outlined by SNL, are focusing additional of their interest toward the jumbo industry, or loans of a lot more than $417,000 which are not underwritten by government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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