JPMorgan Chase continued to boost its first-lien holdings even as it issued a number of relatively large jumbo MBS deals…

The nonbank is also allowing a 50 percent debt-to-income ratio on the product.

The ranking was determined by dividing a company’s profit over the last financial year by the number of employees…

What’s gestating now in Congress may represent the best chance of reforming the secondary market since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed into conservatorship in September 2008…

“It is certainly not a coincidence that these lies are being peddled once again as the Senate Banking Committee resumes its work this Congress on reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” said Mica Johnson, Sen. Bob Corker’s communications director.

Some lenders said they’re loosening underwriting standards in in an effort to compete for volume.

Nationally, home prices increased by 6.48 percent in October compared with a year ago, according to Black Knight.

Through three quarters this year, retail originations fell 20.2 percent while brokers saw a 10.3 percent production drop and correspondent lending declined by only 1.8 percent.

The federal regulator released a check digit tool and a rate-spread calculator.

Certain temporary modifications have been made to allow lenders to submit demographic information if the currently available fields in the system match the data submitted. Otherwise, just leave the fields blank, according to the FHA.