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An eMortgage is an electronic mortgage where the loan documentation is created, executed, transferred and stored electronically.. In the United States eMortgages are made legally enforceable by the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
Adjustable rate mortgage or ARM - A mortgage where the interest rate adjusts relative to a specified index + margin. E.g. COFI, LIBOR etc.; Hybrid ARM - An adjustable rate mortgage where the initial 'start' rate is fixed for some portion of time (3,5,7, or 10 years) thereafter the interest rate adjusts (yearly or bi-annually) based on the sum of a specified index + margin.
The Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (or FHEFSSA, Pub. L. 102–550, title XIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, H.R. 5334, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3941, 12 U.S.C. § 4501 et seq.).
An FNMA loan, aka a conforming loan or Fannie Mae-backed mortgage, is a loan or mortgage that has been sold to the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA, or Fannie Mae) — or one that meets ...
What is the Truth in Lending Act? The Truth in Lending Act (TILA) is a federal law that aims to promote transparency and protect consumers in credit transactions.
E-Trade logo from February 3, 2008, to December 31, 2021. In 1982, physicist William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded TradePlus in Palo Alto, California, with $15,000 in capital. In 1983, it launched its first trade via a Compuserve network. In 1992, Porter and Newcomb founded E-Trade and made electronic trading available to individual ...
The funds for guaranteed mortgages come from private-sector lenders, but the loan is backed by a guarantor, typically a government agency, that will pay out money to the lender if the borrower ...
Mortgage loan financing relies more on secondary mortgage markets and less on formal government guarantees backed by covered bonds and deposits. [8] [9] Prepayment penalties are discouraged by underwriting requirements of large organizations such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [8] Mortgages loans are often nonrecourse debt, unlike most of the ...