Watt said GSE pay should be brought more in line with comparable private sector jobs, but no higher than what CEOs in the 25th percentile of the market make, which is roughly $7.26 million a year.

Financial consultant Paul Hindman, however, is concerned about such bonuses...

Also, the mortgage cannot have been acquired through securitization, nor can it have certain verboten features.

To date, CSS has yet to perform a beta test and has a “black budget” whose details are only known to Fannie, Freddie and their regulator.

A CFPB lending exam can take up to six months to complete and can be quite expensive over time...

CEO Dan Perl noted that the lender will surpass $30 million of fundings in May, a record for the company.

Plenty of attendees at NAR were steamed that after CFPB Director Richard Cordray made his remarks about TRID that he left the meeting without taking a single question from the audience.

Fannie and Freddie securitized $26.34 billion of purchase mortgages in April, a 24.3 percent increase from the previous month.

As the TRID deadline moves closer, industry anxieties are getting stronger and more specific in nature.

Stevens also said that while he was FHA commissioner he chose not to go after lenders for violating the False Claims Act because he said such actions would have opened a “Pandora’s Box.”