Roughly 75 of the 675 significant recommendations that the OIG has made to FHFA remain open. The oldest dates from early 2021.

GSE credit ratings; big pay raise for Freddie exec; FHFA tech sprinter dashes to better mortgage.

HUD housing counseling services help streamline the application process for borrowers, saving originators time and money, panelists said last week at MISMO’s spring summit in Boston.

Officials that operate non-QM correspondent platforms suggest that mortgage brokers can see success by shifting channels.

In states with data privacy laws, the mortgage-denial gap between minority and non-minority mortgage borrowers is 3% lower than in states without the privacy laws, according to researchers.

Years after the agency first sought public comments on the regulation, the SEC’s Office of Structured Finance is interested in taking another crack at finding ways to improve the rules for ABS.

New studies show that the expectation of future climate risk effects the current behavior of lenders and CRT can be used to estimate the true cost of hurricane risk.

Non-QM securitizations are growing by leaps and bounds — and that’s keeping subservicers and the attorneys that review the deals quite busy.

Ginnie Mae signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s state-owned government-sponsored enterprise to remove barriers to investments in housing.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has suggested the FHFA end its tri-merge process, replacing it with a single credit report rather than the bi-merge model as currently planned.