When rates shot up quickly, were some MBS investors caught behind the eight-ball?

A former federal prosecutor, Linick is credited with creating the agency’s Office of Inspector General from the ground up.

Spreads have widened significantly on non-agency jumbo MBS in recent weeks, cutting into issuers’ profits.

According to exclusive figures compiled by Inside Mortgage Trends, Citigroup had $748 million of disputed buybacks with the GSEs at March 31.

Authorizing the FHA to shift mortgage-servicing rights from one processor to another could have a ripple effect on Ginnie Mae servicing rights.

On Tuesday the Fed will hold an open meeting to discuss final rule-making tied to the Basel III accords, which affects the value of mortgage servicing rights.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take on the presidential recess appointment issue in Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board, the odds are high that Richard Cordray’s appointment will also be reviewed and perhaps declared unconstitutional, according to the consensus expectations of a number of industry representatives. And if that happens, it could be a real mess for the mortgage lending community, according to one top industry lobbyist. In Canning, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...

The CFPB issued a bulletin last week that details the kind of “responsible conduct” by a regulated institution that the agency may “favorably consider in exercising its enforcement discretion.”The factors include the nature, extent and severity of the violations identified; the actual or potential harm from those violations; whether there is a history of past violations; and a party’s effectiveness in addressing violations. The bureau said the guidance was being issued to inform those subject to its enforcement...

Last week, the CFPB came out with a final rule that establishes procedures to extend its supervision to certain nonbanks whose activities it has reasonable cause to determine pose risks to consumers. Nonbanks subject to the rule are companies that offer or provide consumer financial products or services but do not have a bank, thrift or credit union charter. The CFPB has the authority under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to supervise, after following certain procedures, any nonbank...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote CFPB Director Richard Cordray to take issue with the bureau’s increasing number of requests that companies provide huge quantities of data about individual consumers’ financial transactions on an ongoing, real-time basis. “We agree with you that data are important in determining whether there is a sound basis for regulation and how regulation should be structured, and recognize that Congress conferred specific authority on the bureau to collect data to inform the bureau’s use of its regulatory...