Incenter Mortgage Advisors, Denver, is getting ready to launch a flow MSR marketplace of its own…

Movement gave tech developers eight weeks to develop a prototype…

Leon Cooperman has been increasing his stake in Ocwen Financial and now owns about 11 percent of the firm…

Applications have picked up in April, May and June but firms that focused too heavily on refis are now feeling the heat.

The D.C. circuit decision involving PHH Mortgage and Sec. 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act should lead the CFPB to rethink its 2015 guidance on marketing services agreements, industry groups say. The CFPB under former director Richard Cordray issued guidance suggesting that many MSAs are designed to evade RESPA’s prohibition on the payment and acceptance of kickbacks and referral fees. “What the bureau did was to create an impression that it would ...

A House Republican asked the CFPB to stop so- called regulation by enforcement and to clarify the use and role of the guidance it has issued. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-MO, recently sent a letter to six agencies, including the CFPB, expressing concerns that guidance that does not go through notice-and-comment rulemaking has been used as the basis of enforcement actions. “Many of my colleagues and I hear frequently from financial institutions that guidance promulgated ...

A federal judge in New York last week ruled that the structure of the CFPB is unconstitutional, creating a conflict with a D.C. circuit court ruling. The decision by Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York also said the CFPB cannot bring claims under the Consumer Financial Protection Act or pursue enforcement actions against the defendants in the case, RD Legal Funding and related entities. An en banc decision in January ...

President Trump last week nominated Kathy Kraninger, a little-known White House budget official, to head the CFPB. The nomination has set the stage for a contentious Senate confirmation process. Most observers were surprised by Trump’s CFPB pick as Kraninger’s name has never come up in public discussion of possible nominees to become the next director of the bureau. The first question for many was: Who is Kathy Kraninger? The nominee currently serves as ...

t is still a big question mark how Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s nominee to head the CFPB, will perform in Senate confirmation hearings. But the widely different reactions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers signal a contentious and drawn-out process. The White House last week officially sent the nomination of Kraninger to the Senate. The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing on the nominee, which could ...

The CFPB fined a South Carolina-based installment lender $5 million for unlawful debt collection practices, including threatening consumers with jail, shoving them and physically blocking a consumer from leaving private property. It is the second enforcement action since Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, took the reins of the CFPB last year. The Security Group and its subsidiaries own and operate approximately 900 locations in 20 states across the country ...