“We have a pretty good idea of what the bureau is going to do in substance,” said Donald Lampe, a partner in the financial services group at Morrison & Foerster…

Nonprime lender Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions is now offering a “no-income” loan to investors with credit scores as low as 660...

Smaller depositories held 8.0 percent of the banking industry’s total mortgage servicing assets in 2015, up from a share of less than 2.0 percent as recently as 2009.

Caliber executive William Pendleton noted the nonprime MBS recently issued by Lone Star Funds (which owns Caliber) will help the lender significantly reduce interest rates on new originations.

The IG accused the FHFA of shirking its responsibility to effectively examine Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...

Sen. Grassley pointed out that production decreased after Wertheimer’s tenure began in September 2014 with just three audit reports produced in 2015.

Some banks nearly tripled their bulk MSR acquisitions in 2Q16. SunTrust, for example, bought $7.41 billion of GSE servicing during the period, making it the third most active buyer in the market.

Applications and refis are so robust that production "capacity" is now a major concern...

However, EverBank has been cutting back its presence in residential finance, a trend that was cemented when Tom Wind left the company in December...

Flagstar capitalized its residential servicing portfolio at 99 basis points at June 30, compared to 106 bps at March 31.