Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, rolled out some of the details of a Republican proposal to replace the Dodd-Frank Act, the Financial CHOICE (Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs) Act. The proposal includes the text of a measure already passed by the House, which would provide a QM safe harbor for any mortgage that has been held in portfolio by a depository institution since origination.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, detailed in a speech a proposal that House Republicans have been working on that would replace the Dodd-Frank Act, including some important changes that would scale back the powers of the CFPB. The bill would shift the agency’s mission to include both consumer protection and maintaining competitive markets, with a cost-benefit analysis of rules performed by an Office of Economic Analysis. Also, it would replace the current single director with a bipartisan, five-member commission which would be subject to congressional oversight and appropriations.

Two industry sources confirmed this week that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will, indeed, begin examining for compliance with the integrated disclosure rule known as TRID this month.

S&P Global Ratings warned on Monday that it could downgrade the issuer credit rating of Walter Investment Management later this year due to ongoing problems at the nonbank.

Lenders reported a moderate net easing of credit standards across all loan types over the past three months, according to Fannie Mae’s second quarter 2016 Mortgage Lender Sentiment Survey released this week.

A key judicial review panel recently said the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s March bid to consolidate all the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholder lawsuits and transfer them to one court was “inappropriate” and rejected the government’s request.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac produced $73.23 billion of single-family mortgage-backed securities in May, a solid 6.3 percent increase from April, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside The GSEs.

The banking industry still hasn’t touched bottom in its years-long retreat from the mortgage servicing rights business.

Originally scheduled to be implemented the weekend of June 25, Fannie Mae announced on Friday that it is delaying the release of Desktop Underwriter Version 10.0 due to concerns that came up during the testing phase.

Open Mortgage announced they have been approved as a seller with Fannie Mae, joining the likes of So-Fi, another marketplace lender which was approved as a Fannie seller/servicer in May.