NRMLA said the changes "diminish the benefit (amount of loan proceeds) available and increase the costs (increased upfront mortgage insurance premium) to most borrowers.”

The refi share of new applications continues to rise…

Earlier this month, nonprime lender Citadel Servicing Corp., Irvine, CA, launched a one-month bank-statement program for self-employed borrowers.

Late last year, IBM bought Ludwig’s Promontory Financial Services advisory firm, but the former OCC chief kept two divisions: Promontory MortgagePath LLC and Promontory Interfinancial.

So, how is the program doing? A spokesman for UWM said 40 firms were created with the first round of seed money and all are still in business.

In aggregate, banks and thrifts earned $3.72 billion from mortgage banking activities during 2Q17…

“The NOLO platform allows customers to complete the mortgage lending process entirely online without the industry standard loan officer interference at each step,” 360 said.

A growing number of mortgage lenders and aggregators are actively considering entry into the private label securitization market, says Clayton President Jeff Tennyson…

With speculation mounting that CFPB Director Richard Cordray could be out the door as early as the Labor Day weekend, the CFPB late last week announced it is amending the 2015 updates to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act rule. The bureau has temporarily changed reporting requirements for banks and credit unions that issue home-equity lines of credit, and clarified the information that financial institutions are required to collect and report about their mortgage lending. Under the rules that are scheduled to take effect January 2018, financial institutions would have been required under HMDA to report HELOCs if they made 100 such loans in each of the last two years. The final rule issued this past Thursday increases that threshold to ...

Legal liability in the context of the so-called black hole in the CFPB’s TRID integrated disclosure rule remains a source of much anxiety for mortgage lenders, according to experts such as Rod Alba, senior vice president of mortgage markets, financial management and public policy for the American Bankers Association. “For lenders in general, [the biggest concern] is simply the liability that results from allowing the transaction to be negotiated until the last minute,” he said last week in an interview. “We don’t like telling the consumer, ‘You’re now three business days from closing; we can no longer negotiate and you must go through on this deal.’ That’s not pleasant.” Alba continued: “The consumer may say, ‘Well, no, that chimney has ...