With mortgage production coming under pressure in early 2018, some lenders are doing what might seem chancy: paying large signing bonuses to top-producing loan officers.

With GSE reform all but dead, rumors about possible administrative changes abound...

The American Federation of Teachers has threatened to end a mortgage partnership with Wells Fargo unless the bank stops providing support and financial services to the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers.

Fitch said the $3 billion reserve should be sufficient to cover income volatility during “the normal course of business, as seen when interest-rate volatility results in valuation adjustments within the GSEs’ derivative portfolios.”

The nonbank locked $2.3 billion of purchase mortgages in March, up 52.0 percent from the prior month.

Mulvaney – a former GOP Congressman from South Carolina and a Tea Party acolyte – declared: “The Bureau’s new strategic priorities are to recognize free markets and consumer choice and to take a prudent, consistent, and humble approach to enforcing the law.”

The agency issued $92.58 billion in MBS backed by forward mortgages during the first three months of 2018.

According to the consulting firm of Garrett, McAuley & Co., some mortgage loan officers at depositories earn at least four-times what their CEOs make...

So far, Bill Dallas has shunned all media requests for comment.

The hiring of Gill hire has prompted some speculation that SoFi might resume issuance of non-agency MBS…