The general fear is that higher-than-needed capital standards will cause mortgage insurers to hold unnecessary amounts of assets that will force the industry to raise premiums.

The remaining undrawn taxpayer commitment to the GSEs is $258.1 billion dollars, Stegman noted.

The Wall Street firm hunting for mortgage acquisitions is not a depository like JPMorgan Chase...

“Fannie and Freddie have made tremendous strides to provide clarity in the system and create innovations,” said Peter Carroll, executive vice president for mortgage policy and counter party relations at Quicken Loans.

Wells' application pipeline is at the highest level seen since the second quarter of 2013.

Chase had $326 million in net income from mortgage banking in the first quarter of 2015, down 3.6 percent compared with the previous quarter.

BofA and Chase are among the lenders that will move up their consumer-disclosure related processes.

The share of GSE business that came from the top five sellers increased slightly in the first quarter of 2015 compared with the previous quarter.

Regulators found that New Day staff completed continuing education requirements for CEO Robert Posner and COO Paul Alger at least 18 times.

First Horizon announced on Thursday that its regional bank agreed to a $212.5 million settlement with the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The settlement relates to First Tennessee Bank’s underwriting and origination of FHA-insured mortgages from 2006 through 2008.