CFPB oversight has not significantly reduced the volume of mortgage originations, but it has changed the kinds of loans being made, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found. Critics of the CFPB have argued that its activities increased compliance costs and ultimately reduced the availability of financial services to consumers. However, a recent New York Fed staff report found there’s little evidence supporting that theory in the mortgage business. The market share of ...

In response to the CFPB’s request for information on adopted rules, industry groups especially want the bureau to make some changes to the qualified mortgage standards under the ability-to-repay rule, including making the “GSE patch” permanent. The ATR rule generally requires a maximum debt-to-income ratio of 43 percent in order to get QM status. Special rules apply to agency mortgages, however, including a temporary provision that loans eligible for sale to the ...

Fed researchers examined data before and after July 2011, when the CFPB began operation…

Presale reports for non-agency MBS backed by new originations typically identify lenders that account for at least 5.0 percent of the contributions…

At the same time, there has been an increase in the share of loans with downpayment assistance…

In early June, Finance of America filed a layoff notice on 43 workers in Roseville, CA.

The possibility of issuer failure is a continuing concern at Ginnie Mae…

The new ruling raises the likelihood that the Supreme Court might take up the issue in the future.

“We didn’t observe any meaningful change in purchase loan application trends compared to earlier years,” said Archana Pradhan of CoreLogic.

One former loanDepot official had this to say about the rumor: “It makes sense. loanDepot has plenty of loan officers handling inbound leads. Amazon could create a ton more and compete with Quicken….”