“Fannie and Freddie have made tremendous strides to provide clarity in the system and create innovations,” said Peter Carroll, executive vice president for mortgage policy and counter party relations at Quicken Loans.

Wells' application pipeline is at the highest level seen since the second quarter of 2013.

Chase had $326 million in net income from mortgage banking in the first quarter of 2015, down 3.6 percent compared with the previous quarter.

Ocwen officials stress that the company has made significant progress in strengthening its operations and capital structure.

“The greater comfort that banks have in the current regulatory environment has situated them as more potential buyers of mortgage servicing product than was the case several years ago,” Fitch Ratings said.

BofA and Chase are among the lenders that will move up their consumer-disclosure related processes.

The share of GSE business that came from the top five sellers increased slightly in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter.

Regulators found that New Day staff completed continuing education requirements for CEO Robert Posner and COO Paul Alger at least 18 times.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac issued a robust $189.92 billion of single-family mortgage-backed securities during the first three months of 2015, according to a new Inside The GSEs analysis.Business in the GSEs’ core MBS guaranty program grew 5.9 percent from the fourth quarter of last year. The pace in early 2015 was up a hefty 47.0 percent from the same period last year, which was the weakest quarter in over a decade. Nonbank seller/servicers continued to gain market share. These companies accounted for 45.6 percent of GSE MBS issued in early 2015, and their total production was up 7.7 percent from the previous quarter. (Includes 2 exclusive charts).

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters on April 7 to the Department of Justice and the Treasury requesting documents and details regarding the government’s 2011 decision to take the bulk of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s profits. This comes on the heels of reports suggesting President Obama has invoked executive privilege over some of the documents pertaining to the decision. While admitting that he’s unclear whether or not the president asserted executive privilege, Grassley emphasized the importance of transparency and said taxpayers have a right to know what transpired that resulted in billions of dollars going to the Treasury. “But instead of transparency, there appears to be an invocation of executive privilege,” he said. “If true, this is cause for concern.”