Despite these developments, FBR Capital Markets analyst Edwards Mills said passage of the Hensarling legislation is unlikely. “We continue to believe that major Congressional action on financial regulation is a 2018 event,” he writes in a new client note.

However, conforming jumbos accounted for 36.3 percent of the $1.03 billion non-agency MBS JPMorgan Chase issued in February.

More CFPB examiners means more CFPB exams? Maybe, maybe not...

Wells Fargo Co. ranked third with $21.1 billion of ARM originations in 2016…

One trade group said Phillips has already reached out to the industry, gathering opinions on key issues facing the market, including Fannie and Freddie…

“There are a couple of big banks looking at FHA again,” said the consultant, but he declined to identify the shops, citing client confidentiality.

A new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis reveals that the supply of mortgages originated in the wholesale-broker market fell 42.8 percent during 1Q17…

CEO Mat Ishbia said the interest-rate issue concerned just 5 percent of the lender’s loans that were closed in California between 2011 and 2014. “We didn’t benefit one penny and not one borrower was harmed,” he said.-

Jeff Detwiler, president of Long & Foster, which also owns a mortgage banking firm, said the company’s attrition rate “is at its lowest.”

LenderLive hired a majority of the former PHH employees and rebranded the private-label facility...