A new executive order gives White House control of independent agencies; the CFPB is calling on the public to snitch on staff violating stop work order.

FHFA may push Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase LLPAs on mission-adjacent loans to drive more loan sales to the private market.

Former FDIC board member Jonathan McKernan has been nominated to head the CFPB. Meanwhile a new acting director shut down all agency activities, spurring staff protests and lawsuits.

UWM is pondering sales of $52 billion of product. Will other sellers follow suit or maybe opt for a bank-financing transaction?

Subservicing giant Cenlar created the post of chief banking and capital markets officer, hiring JB Long to man the post.

Regulators and lenders will have to figure out how to comply with non-discrimination laws without resorting to the use of DEI.

The rising homeowner insurance crisis could make getting affordable coverage or getting coverage at all difficult in some parts of the country and, by extension, make properties in those areas unmortgageable.

Absent APOR figure, lenders and mortgage-backed securities buyers would be uncertain whether loans were QM.

The lending affiliate of the Onity Group paused its non-agency operations in Maryland as a new state regulation requires all parties involved in the mortgage lending process to be a licensed mortgage lender.

Lenders are facing a tough market for originations, helping to prompt sales of servicing. The supply of MSR is coming both from older vintages with interest rates well below current rates and new production in which a lender might not want to hedge the MSR.