The mortgage credit box contracted quickly as the housing market slid toward disaster in 2007, but it’s proving to be much more difficult to stretch it back to what used to be considered normal. The subtitle to this week’s annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association could well have been “access to credit,” an idea that clearly dominated the conversation. Despite the recent unexpected drop in mortgage interest rates, most observers expect origination volume in 2015 to track closely to this year’s sluggish level and part of the problem is relatively weak home-purchase lending. Industry people are...

The new nonbank task force includes representatives from nine state regulators, including the New York Department of Financial Services where Benjamin Lawsky is the superintendent.

According to the most recently available data, 33 IG offices had roughly 3,500 agents authorized to carry firearms.

Guild intends to buy even more mortgage companies. Is an IPO next?

Many lenders and some investors pushed for an alignment of QRM and QM, while other investors sought protections beyond the requirements for QMs.

The chickens come home to roost: from 2008 through 2013, HUD increased the FHA’s annual mortgage insurance premium five times.

David Steckel of Bank of America said his institution has focused on capturing more of the customers who fit into the company’s credit box rather than making that box bigger.

Any refunds paid by the originator must occur within 210 days after the loan is made.

To account for the risk posed by the small loan pool, Fitch applied a penalty of 1.07-times (a 7.0 percent penalty) to the lifetime default expectations for the MBS...

One servicing analyst told IMFnews that if Ocwen continues to get downgraded on its servicer ratings it could be forced to sell MSRs and/or post additional capital.