According to the FHLB-NY, a limited number of investors – and members – have been approved for the pilot.

Six firms issued jumbo MBS in 1Q 2015, down from eight participants the previous quarter.

Moreover, it is unclear how much enforcement power Edward Golding can wield.

The wholesale division of Premier Nationwide Lending had its best month of October 2013...

However, the late January 50 basis point reduction in FHA premiums should help.

The no-downpayment product from Navy Federal is called “HomeBuyer’s Choice,” and year-to-date the lender has funded $179 million in such loans…

Shortly before the U.S. Congress vacated the nation’s capital for its spring recess, the House Financial Services Committee passed, with varying levels of bipartisan support, a package of regulatory relief bills, including a handful related to rulemakings from the CFPB. Most notable among them is H.R. 685, the Mortgage Choice Act, sponsored by Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-MI. H.R. 685 aims to assist banks that originate mortgages through the wholesale channel by modifying the points-and-fees formula in the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule. The measure would exclude from the calculation insurance and taxes held in escrow and fees paid to affiliated companies as a result of participating in an affiliated business arrangement. The committee approved the bill by a 43-12 vote, despite a ...

The Independent Community Bankers of America told the CFPB that it strongly supports some of the key proposed changes to the ability-to-repay/qualified mortgage rule. However, more must be done, including the establishment of a safe harbor for community bank mortgages held in portfolio. “[W]e strongly believe community bank loans that are held in portfolio, including balloon mortgage loans, should be considered QM loans that receive automatic legal safe harbor protections and an exception from any escrow requirements for higher-priced mortgage loans,” the trade group said in a comment letter. When a community bank holds a loan in portfolio, it has 100 percent of the credit risk, a direct stake in the loan’s performance and every incentive to ensure it is ...

Consumer complaints to the CFPB fell in most financial service product segments during the first quarter, not only from the previous quarter but also from one year ago, according to the latest analysis of bureau data by Inside the CFPB. Total gripes in the first quarter of 2015 declined 8.2 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014, and slid 17.0 percent compared to the first quarter of 2014. Once again, consumer criticisms about residential mortgages led the decline in both timeframes, dropping 20.3 percent quarter over quarter and plunging 33.5 percent year over year. The fall-off is likely due to the shrinkage in overall mortgage originations as well as the continued recovery in the overall housing and mortgage markets.The [with exclusive data chart] ...

Some of the top mortgage lenders in the United States plan to move up their consumer disclosure- related processes even more than the CFPB is requiring under its integrated disclosure rule, which takes effect Aug. 1, 2015. It looks like they are just trying to be conservative and provide a bit of a cushion, at least in the initial transition period to a revamped disclosure regime. Bob Kelly, head of Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act implementation at Bank of America, told Inside the CFPB, “One thing that I think the CFPB sought to really have is that customers know before they owe. From a customer perspective, they often felt that the process to close was hurried and ...