Antonio Weiss, counselor to the secretary of the Treasury Department, cautioned that any reduction to the corporate tax rate could prompt a draw from Treasury funds by the GSEs.

Late last year, RPM made what it called an “investment” in American Eagle Mortgage of Ohio…

BB&T saw residential loan production decline in the fourth quarter while its servicing portfolio fell by less than 1 percent.

Early in its existence, IndyMac was a nonbank and had been grub-staked by Countrywide Financial...

The number of “sold” homes failing to seal the deal come closing time is growing. A new report from Trulia shows that the “sales fail” rate has jumped from 2.1 percent in 2015 to 3.9 percent in 2016. Trulia noted that there was an even bigger jump in incomplete sales in the past two years. Of all listed properties in the fourth quarter of 2014, only 1.4 percent did not reach the closing table. But in the fourth quarter of 2016, the number of failed sales catapulted to 4.3 percent. The reasons those sales are falling through the cracks range...

In general, the Treasury nominee said his goal is to find a “bipartisan solution” to Fannie and Freddie...

Although heavy refinancing activity accounted for the fourth-quarter uptick in MBS issuance, 2016 was also a strong purchase-mortgage market…

USB blamed the weaker mortgage performance on “lower origination and sales volume.”

One industry source noted: “On January 20, President Trump will be issuing an executive order that freezes all past actions over a certain period of time. The FHA premium reduction gets swept into this.”

DB was faulted for failing to disclose second liens on mortgages in MBS and for concealing refreshed credit scores that were worse that the credit scores disclosed to investors.