Purchase loans made by Guild totaled $4.4 billion in the first half of 2015, accounting for 66.1 percent of all production.

Operational problems at Trump Financial? It's all history now...

Recently the company opened a new branch office in Anaheim, CA, bringing to 38 the number of C&C branch offices across the nation.

During JPM’s recent earnings call, Lake said “over half” of the new portfolio additions were jumbos and “the other half” were conventional mortgages.

The vast majority of the jumbos were originated by First Republic Bank and have seasoned for an average of 2.4 years.

PennyMac increased its servicing portfolio to $136 billion at June 30, an 18.2 percent sequential gain.

As the summer moves along, servicing auctions of all different sizes keep coming...

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The CFPB last week finalized its earlier proposal to extend to Oct. 3, 2015, the effective date for its controversial integrated disclosure rule under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: the so-called TRID. “The bureau believes that moving the effective date may benefit both industry and consumers with a smoother transition to the new rule,” the CFPB said in announcing the finalization. “The bureau further believes that scheduling the effective date on a Saturday may facilitate implementation by giving industry time over the weekend to launch new systems configurations and to test systems.” Further, “A Saturday launch is also consistent with industry plans tied to the original effective date of Saturday, August 1.” The ...

The CFPB last week ordered Citibank and its subsidiaries to provide an estimated $700 million in relief to eligible consumers harmed by allegedly illegal practices related to credit card add-on products and services. Citibank and its subsidiaries also will pay $35 million in civil money penalties to the CFPB. Roughly 7 million consumer accounts were affected by Citibank’s deceptive marketing, billing, and administration of debt protection and credit monitoring add-on products, said the bureau. A Citibank subsidiary also deceptively charged expedited payment fees to nearly 1.8 million consumer accounts during collection calls. More specifically, the bureau’s allegations of deceptive marketing include charges that Citi misrepresented the cost and fees for coverage, misrepresented the benefits of some products, used illegal practices ...