The Conference of State Bank Supervisors recently announced that all states and U.S. territories now use a single, common exam to assess mortgage loan originators. In the past, a mortgage license candidate would need to take the national exam and a separate test for each state license. Now, MLOs only need take a national test – the National SAFE MLO Test with Uniform State Content – to hold a license. State regulators started to test a uniform national exam five years ago ...

Most of the month-to-month slump was at Freddie, where MBS production fell 8.9 percent from June.

Lenders that offer “fix and flip” financing to single-family investors are having another good year for the most part and see little in the way of either stiff competition or dark clouds on the horizon.

Two years ago, Computershare Limited bought Capital Markets Cooperatives, one of the largest mortgage co-ops in the U.S., for roughly $71.2 million.

It might be in Ditech’s best interest if Houlihan Lokey finds a buyer now while MSR values are still peaking…

California, the largest mortgage market in the U.S., appears to provide more than enough business for loan officers, according to a new Inside Mortgage Trends analysis that compares the number of registered and licensed LOs in each state to the volume of home loans and mortgage applications. [Includes one data chart.]

Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America were the top producers of jumbo loans in the second quarter…

Select Portfolio Services will handle the monthly servicing chores for Angel Oak.

Bankers argue that single-family construction loans should be exempt from TRID because they are temporary and cover construction activity…

First-lien mortgage originations were up across all product lines in the second quarter of 2018, but the jumbo market saw the biggest gains from the first three months of the year, according to a new Inside Mortgage Finance ranking and market analysis. [Includes two data charts.]