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Fitch cited CCM's strong market share in the distributed retail channel, solid operating track record, experienced management team and conservative leverage as credit strengths. The company ranked as the eighth-largest lender in the first half of 2025, with $23.05 billion in originations, according to Inside Mortgage Finance. But Fitch also flagged challenges, including exposure to cyclical mortgage market conditions, reliance on secured short-term wholesale funding, regulatory risk tied to Ginnie Mae loans and key personnel risk related to majority shareholder Ron Leonhardt.

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Ever since the Surrendergate Nine capitulated to the Trump administration, pledging nearly a billion dollars worth of free legal work, the firms have bent over backward to shrug it off as no big deal. As the months dragged on, and the firms lost more talent and more clients, stories started cropping up suggesting that the firms viewed the deals as unenforceable all along and that it's business as usual over there.