The National Association of Mortgage Brokers, the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Realtors are scheduled to meet with CFPB Director Richard Cordray and his staff this week to discuss various issues related to the bureau’s ability-to-repay rule and its qualified mortgage standard. More specifically, during their Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, meeting, the industry representatives plan to raise the impact of the points-and-fees cap, what they assert are the biases against mortgage brokers, and the ability for consumers to...

The CFPB’s integrated mortgage disclosure rule under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Truth in Lending Act might not be out until early December, an informed source told Inside the CFPB. For months, the expectation had been that an October release was in the offing, but it still has yet to come out, and bureau personnel say they don’t have a release date. “We were in a meeting at the beginning of October, and before that, there were some pretty heavy rumors that it was going to come out at the end of October,” said...

FBR Capital Markets believes that smaller shops are not being counted in new estimates on loan production.

Is the White House ready to give up on Rep. Mel Watt, D-NC, to be the next director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency? Don’t bet on it.

Standard & Poor's rated $11.65 billion of non-agency MBS issued through the end of September.

Housing Commissioner Carol Galante warned that with interest rates rising, the FHA may have reached a “tipping point” with its mortgage insurance premiums.

Two Harbors, a publicly traded REIT, is getting aggressive when it comes to MSR acquisitions.

If the case settles, it would be the second time in two years that a case involving disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act has settled before the Supreme Court had an opportunity to hear arguments.

Ocwen Financial posted record revenues in the third quarter of 2013 that could have been even higher if not for unexpected delays in boarding $42.0 billion in unpaid principal balance on non-agency mortgages from OneWest Bank. Officials at Ocwen wouldn’t reveal the exact cause of the delay. The loans were in non-agency mortgage-backed securities issued by IndyMac, which was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2008 and sold by the FDIC to OneWest in 2009. Ocwen officials said delays ...

FHA jumbo loan originations continued their quarterly fluctuations as production in the second quarter of 2013 slipped after a good run in the previous quarter, according to Inside FHA Lending’s analysis of FHA data. Volume fell 1.5 percent from the first quarter, during which the FHA posted $5.36 billion in jumbo mortgage originations. The first quarter number broke a declining production trend that began in the second quarter of last year when FHA reported $6.27 billion in jumbo lending. FHA lenders produced a total of $10.8 billion in new jumbo loans in the first half of 2013, down 2.7 percent from ... [2 charts]