Federal regulators and fair housing advocates are calling for continued vigilance in fair lending with the reappearance of mortgage redlining and loan steering. The return of pre-crisis predatory lending practices, like steering and redlining, pose new challenges to the mortgage industry and to minority communities, which have seen their home equity disappear with the collapse of the housing market, said participants in a fair-lending conference hosted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Credit scores raise...

NYCB Mortgage and George Mason Mortgage are once again top contributors to the REIT's jumbo deals...

Glass told IMFnews that he has seen a noticeable uptick in searches for what he calls “senior leadership” positions...

Who cares about large hedging losses? Not the FHFA, which so far has shown no interest in increasing the allowable amount of capital the two can retain...

Ginnie’s big advantage is that it gets all the FHA and VA loans, while the GSEs so far have not gotten much traction in their reduced-downpayment programs.

According to figures compiled by Inside FHA/VA Lending, Wells ranked second among all FHA retail originators in the first half.

The CHLA noted that almost 99 percent of depositories are exempt from exams conducted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Meanwhile, 37.0 percent of realtors indicated they have put together plans with their lender or title company to help even out the process...

Moreover, one warehouse executive told IMFnews that he is beginning to get requests for increased capacity.

M&T sought a dismissal of the lawsuit in April, claiming that its loan officers were acting based on legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons.