Wells' application pipeline is at the highest level seen since the second quarter of 2013.

Chase had $326 million in net income from mortgage banking in the first quarter of 2015, down 3.6 percent compared with the previous quarter.

BofA and Chase are among the lenders that will move up their consumer-disclosure related processes.

The share of GSE business that came from the top five sellers increased slightly in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter.

Regulators found that New Day staff completed continuing education requirements for CEO Robert Posner and COO Paul Alger at least 18 times.

First Horizon announced on Thursday that its regional bank agreed to a $212.5 million settlement with the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The settlement relates to First Tennessee Bank’s underwriting and origination of FHA-insured mortgages from 2006 through 2008.

Mortgage brokers played an increasingly important role in the conventional conforming market during the first quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Mortgage brokers were responsible for $23.8 billion of single-family mortgages securitized by the two government-sponsored enterprises during the first three months of this year. That was up 16.0 percent ... [Includes two data charts]

Banks and thrifts reported a 10.3 percent increase in mortgage repurchases and indemnifications during the fourth quarter of 2014 compared with the previous quarter, according to an Inside Mortgage Trends analysis of call-report data. Despite the late-year uptick, 2014 still ranked as the most benign for the industry since banks began reporting repurchases in 2008. Institutions repurchased or made indemnifications totaling just $4.25 billion ... [Includes one data chart]

Repurchase requests on new production are few and far between, according to the government-sponsored enterprises. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both recently issued reviews of their quality control processes, noting that lenders have plenty of tools to help ensure loan quality and avoid buybacks. Carlos Perez, a senior vice president and chief credit officer for single-family business at Fannie, said that as of the end of 2014, 0.33 percent of the single-family ...

As a new day of mortgage disclosure practices nears, courtesy of the integrated disclosure rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a strong supporter of eClosings and eMortgages – Fannie Mae – is extending the concept. The government-sponsored enterprise is working on eWarehouse lending in conjunction with eNotes. First, the borrower executes the eNote on a digital closing platform. “The closing system applies a tamper-evident seal to the eNote,” Fannie said ...