The MBA and ABA made recommendations to strengthen practices and procedures of FHA’s loan-asset sales as the agency moves to make the program permanent.

The CFPB now prefers to solve potential mortgage violations through supervision rather than enforcement. The bureau also has shifted its fair lending priorities.

Is the White House getting cold feet on administrative reform of Fannie and Freddie? Maybe, maybe not, but it appears the Federal Housing Finance Agency may not release its GSE capital rule until December.

The Mortgage Bankers Association is making headway on getting the CFPB to change its loan originator compensation rules. But how far will the bureau go?

Industry groups are unsettled by state mortgage servicing requirements that go beyond the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rules. More than 30 states now require nonbank servicers to obtain licenses.

Lenders are seeking significant revisions to FHA loan-level certifications and defect taxonomy in order to increase participation. Banks fled the FHA market following the financial crisis due to the False Claims Act cases brought against them by the Justice Department.

Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro and Cory Booker — Democrats jockeying to be the 2020 presidential candidate — lay out comprehensive plans to reform the nation’s affordable-housing system.

The company filed for bankruptcy protection this week, a maneuver that could lead to a merger with Finance of America. What the two nonbanks have in common: both are owned by The Blackstone Group. But it’s hardly a done deal.

Reverse mortgage lender Live Well Financial is headed into liquidation, causing financial damage along the way to warehouse providers Flagstar Bank and Customers Bank. What killed the company? Answer: IO securities that were decimated by falling interest rates.