Many have watched in amazement as the mortgage industry has dramatically imploded. It is tracked like a body count on websites like the The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter and each new melt down is a grand surprise.
However, I was just pointed to a tool yesterday that may take some of the surprise out who’s (at least among FDIC-insured banks) mortgage portfolios are impaired, relatively healthy, getting worse, getting better, and if the risk is large enough to materially effect the overall financial health of the institution.
This demostration of OSG Technology’s Boomerang, uses publicly available and captured required FDIC reporting from banks to visualize their mortgage portfolios and put in motion internal and relative mortgage portfolio trends.
Here is a sample that I ran on 90+ day lates from this demonstration:
Try some of your own evaluations of top bank’s mortgage risk, and see trends and potential concerns in motion.
