The CFPB's ban on mandatory arbitration provisions was part of the bureau’s final rule on loan originator compensation promulgated in January.

According to new FHA rules, no less than 20 percent of a lender’s required net worth must be in the form of liquid assets consisting of cash or an equivalent.

Not only is HUD looking into PHH's underwriting practices, but the government has questions about the lender's foreclosure expenses.

The auction market for nonperforming mortgages is beginning to generate heat with prices rising nicely from last year.

Come next year, Freddie Mac will assess lenders a fee of $7,500 if they fail to deliver mortgage loans with an aggregate principal balance of more than $5 million.

Bank investment in residential MBS fell 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013 to $1.562 trillion.

A new bill to replace Fannie and Freddie with a single government guarantor is already being dismissed.

The Senate Banking Committee has yet to schedule a confirmation hearing for Mel Watt to head FHFA. Does this lack of action mean anything?

Is Ralph Nader in bed with hedge funds over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Mortgage banking can make strange bed fellows.

Although table-funding transactions fell slightly in terms of market share in the first quarter, prospects are looking up for mortgage brokers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 78,500 men and women were employed as full-time mortgage brokers in March, the highest reading since the summer of 2008, when the housing and mortgage markets were in a free-fall. Trade group officials who represent brokers report they are seeing more wholesalers engaged in table funding ... [Includes one data chart]