The changes follow looser underwriting standards implemented by Redwood outside of the MPF Direct product.

Some 5.0 percent of MGIC’s new insurance written in the second quarter of 2016 was for mortgages with loan-to-value ratios above 95 percent.

To help address racial disparities in lending, the NCRC called for expansion of the Community Reinvestment Act, stronger enforcement of the CRA and strengthening of the government-sponsored enterprises’ affordable housing goals.

“Discrimination should have no place in the mortgage industry,” according to the Republican platform.

Officials at Wells Fargo said that in the first month of offering the non-FHA yourFirstMortgage, applications for more than $1.0 billion in production were received.

While FHA forward mortgages continued to be the biggest source of collateral, the VA program actually produced a bigger gain, 42.4 percent, from the first to the second quarter.

Officials at BofA have a positive outlook for originations, with the bank’s first-mortgage production pipeline at higher levels at the end of the second quarter.

Moody’s noted that all of the conforming mortgages that will be included in the MBS pre-date the TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule.

The bill would expand flood insurance options by including private flood insurance and require the GSEs to accept any private flood insurance company a borrower chooses, as long as the company is financially sound.

The bank’s residential whole loan portfolio (based on average balances) totaled $275.85 billion at quarter’s end compared to $266.02 billion a year ago.