Total gripes to the bureau slid 5.0 percent in the first quarter and were off 3.0 percent on an annual basis...

FHFA chief Mel Watt is expected to issue a final decree this month…

CSS, a joint venture of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is hiring at its main site in Bethesda, MD, as well as its office in Pasadena, CA.

We also heard one report that earlier in the year a large production group from a competitor jumped ship and joined WJB in January.

Give the CFPB even more power? The GOP likely would not stand for such a thing...

At yearend, Cenlar ranked first in subservicing contracts...

Of course, just because five industry vets have issued a white paper, that doesn’t mean it can readily yield into legislation.

Although BLS reported declines, recent interviews conducted by IMFnews suggest that some nondepositories are in a hiring mode this spring, especially for retail loan officers.

U.S. Military Personnel Continue to Report Problems With Their Mortgages. Complaints to the CFPB from American military personnel about their mortgages rose 10 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to a recent report from the bureau. The good news for mortgage lenders is that total complaints about their operations – roughly 9,900 – were less than half of the total generated by debt collection practices, which came to about 20,500. ... FHFA Wants Public Input on National Mortgage Borrower Survey. The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking public comments about the American Survey of Mortgage Borrowers, an information collection effort otherwise known as the National Survey of Existing Mortgage Borrowers. ...

Fact: The Mortgage Metrics report for the third quarter of 2015 was 66 pages while the most recent issue was slashed to just 14 pages.