In his rebuttal to the IG’s findings, FHFA acting deputy director of conservatorships, Bob Ryan, concurs with some of the IG’s recommendations but takes issue with other aspects of the report.

According to the offering circular, the collateral resides in all 50 states with Ohio having the highest chunk at a mere 8.1 percent.

Not only are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spending more money than they were a few years ago, but their proposed budgets are being submitted late, says the IG.

Where's the demand? Only seven jumbo MBS were priced during the third quarter.

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The use of proprietary mods by banks was essentially level compared with the second quarter of 2014 while the number of HAMP restructurings declined by 42.9 percent.

On the conventional product, the loans have an average age of 23 months and delinquencies in the 3.0 percent range. Almost 80 percent of the loans are in California.

One technology source told IMFnews: “I know a few LOS [providers] that are still correcting payment calculations.”

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The CFPB and all of the prudential banking regulators will recognize the good-faith efforts of the mortgage industry to comply with the bureau’s Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule as of its effective date of Oct. 3, 2015. “During initial examinations for compliance with the rule, the agencies’ examiners will evaluate an institution’s compliance management system and overall efforts to come into compliance, recognizing the scope and scale of changes necessary for each supervised institution to achieve effective compliance,” said CFPB Director Richard Cordray, in a letter to industry trade groups. “Examiners will expect supervised entities to make good-faith efforts to comply with the rule’s requirements in a timely manner,” the director continued. “Specifically,...