The "Qualified Mortgage" rule will survive any legal testing of the authority of CFPB chief Richard Cordray.

Wells Fargo says it is committed to its remaining joint venture lending partners but isn't giving out any names on the JVs.

The Federal Reserve is open to the idea of making the "qualified residential mortgage" definition in the pending risk-retention rule the same as that of the "qualified mortgage" standard.

Residential fundings are starting to slow as refinancings wane, according to interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Finance.

Mortgage bankers are promising to wage war over any new guaranty fee hikes that are used for non-residential projects.

The mortgage industry wants the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to clarify whether mortgages subject to repurchase demands will lose their “qualified mortgage” status under the bureau’s new ability-to-repay rule.

Milestone Advisors has picked a winning bidder for the MSR portfolio once owned by Taylor, Bean & Whitaker.

JPMorgan Chase will slash thousands of mortgage workers over the next 20 months.

According to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS, REIT MBS investors as a group increased their MBS holdings by 47.4 percent in 2012.

Federal regulators should consider aligning the pending risk retention rule’s “qualified residential mortgage” standard with the “qualified mortgage” standard under the ability‐to‐repay rule the CFPB finalized on Jan. 10, Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo said. Defining QRMs as QMs would eliminate the downpayment requirement initially proposed for QRMs and allow greater access to credit for borrowers than a more stringent QRM definition, he said at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on...