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How technology can help mortgage lenders combat repurchase risk

When individual mortgages are originated by lenders like banks or credit unions, they may
bundle groups of these mortgages together into financial vehicles called mortgage-backed
securities (MBS) that are then sold to investors on a secondary market.

This allows investors to gain exposure and returns from the mortgage market, while the lenders gain immediate capital to issue new mortgages.

However, if a mortgage in an MBS bundle defaults or contains errors, there is a “repurchase
risk.” This means the entity that assembled and sold the MBS is obligated to buy back any details ⇒

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