Thanks in part to the recent consent order Wells Fargo reached with the CFPB, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently gave the top mortgage lender in the U.S. a rare “needs to improve” rating under the Community Reinvestment Act – this despite citing Wells’ overall “outstanding” performance on the lender’s performance examination components, the lender noted. The rating is based on the most recent CRA performance evaluation, which covers the years 2009-2012. The agency referenced the lender’s recent $100 million consent order with the CFPB, and a related action brought by the city and county of Los Angeles that resulted in a $50 million fine, and numerous other enforcement actions. The OCC said the bank’s overall CRA performance ...

New York State Aligns State Law With TRID. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D, recently signed into law Senate Bill S982, legislation that tweaks the existing state legal definition of the “consummation” of a mortgage loan to synchronize with the Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure Rule promulgated by the CFPB.... Industry Need to Get TRID-Compliant Boosts DocMagic’s Bottom Line. Industry vendor DocMagic, based in Torrance, CA, late last week reported a 42 percent increase in revenue for 2016, due in large part to industry demand for products that enable compliance with the CFPB’s Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure Rule, otherwise known as TRID....

Compared to the fourth quarter of last year, mortgage complaints declined by 14.8 percent.

Single-family volume was down from the unusually high level in the fourth quarter of last year…

Moody’s notes that the privately held Quicken Loans has strong profitability “due to its solid franchise position and strong capital levels…”

UWM is the nation’s largest table funder in the nation, followed by Caliber Home Loans and Stearns Lending, according to a full-year 2016 ranking from Inside Mortgage Finance…

Cowen assigns a 65 percent probability to a GSE bill becoming law next year…

Nonbank mortgage lenders have been killing it in the GSE market in recent years, even gaining a dominant 52.3 percent share of new single-family business back in the second quarter of 2016. Recently, however, not so much. A new Inside The GSEs analysis reveals that nonbanks sold 45.0 percent of single-family loans securitized by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the first quarter of this year. That was the third straight decline in nonbank share of the GSE market.While total Fannie/Freddie MBS issuance fell 27.1 percent from the fourth quarter, nonbank production was off 32.5 percent. And surprisingly, large banks picked up most of the slack.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie securitized $156.80 billion of refi loans during 1Q17, down 35.1 percent sequentially, according to Inside MBS & ABS.

One GSE watcher called it, "The biggest company quarterly profit since the Roman Empire, adjusted for inflation of course.”