JPM upped its MSR portfolio by roughly $45 billion in 3Q21. Good thing because the asset is rising in value. Will other commercial banks follow suit?

Lower all-around at Wells Fargo: home lending, mortgage servicing rights, branches and employees...

Some lenders are sending big contingents to the trade show., while others are staying home...

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie securitized $345.72 billion of loans with some form of primary MI during the third quarter, an 8.3% drop from the previous period.

The government-sponsored enterprises will each be able to purchase $8 billion more in multifamily loans next year.

One interesting side note: The bank grew its third-party servicing portfolio to $509.3 billion, up from $463.9 billion at mid-year, a sequential gain of 9.8%.

Seniors — age 62 or older — filed 1,987 mortgage gripes during the first six months of the year, up 36.1% from the same period last year...

John Ryan, president and CEO of the Conference of State Bank supervisors, suggested that cooperation between the CFPB and state regulators will be particularly important.

However, one investment banker said he believes the SPAC/IPO — announced in May of this year — could very well come off. “Some investors have already lined up to buy shares … They could just force this thing through.”

The Mortgage Bankers Association has asked state regulators to help modernize remote work standards through legislation and/or regulations.