There is still roughly $9.64 billion in housing-related funding available under the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, just in case mortgage lenders/servicers are interested in making more Home Affordable Modification Program loan modifications. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, as of Oct. 31, 2015, the Treasury Department has obligated $37.51 billion to three TARP housing programs – Making Home Affordable ...

The $3.02 billion of Ginnie Mae rights that IMA is selling are presently being subserviced by LoanCare Servicing, Virginia Beach, VA.

At one point, PIMCO had been eyeing RoundPoint, sources told IMFnews...

“Home-equity lending, for years the red-headed stepchild of our industry, is coming back into favor," said CoreLogic's Sam Khater.

Stonegate, which lost $22.8 million in 3Q15, likely will report its fourth quarter results sometime in February.

In a new press release touting its 2015 results, the privately held loanDepot LLC refers to itself on a few occasions as a “marketplace” lender...

CFPB Makes Annual Threshold Adjustments Per HMDA, TILA Regulations. Late last month, the CFPB issued two final rules regarding annual threshold adjustments under the implementing regulations for the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Truth in Lending Act. Under the HMDA regulation, Reg. C, the asset-size exemption for banks, savings associations and credit unions will remain at $44 million. As a result, such institutions with assets of $44 million or less as of Dec. 31, 2015, are exempt from collecting HMDA data in 2016. “An institution’s exemption from collecting data in 2016 does not affect its responsibility to report the data it was required to collect in 2015,” the CFPB said. The rule became effective Jan. 1, 2016, and applies ...

In addition to misrepresenting prices sought by buyers and sellers of MBS, the DOJ said Siegel and co-conspirators misrepresented that bonds held in RBS’s inventory were being offered for sale by a fictitious third-party seller…

DR Horton’s share price is holding up fairly well, but companies such as KB Homes, Pulte and Toll Brothers are trading near their 52-week lows.

The prospects for consumer ABS in 2016 are a bit mixed. Auto ABS – especially subprime – appear susceptible to the Federal Reserve’s promised raising of interest rates this year and beyond, but credit card ABS are strong and performing well. “Rising interest rates could pressure U.S. auto ABS transactions, especially first on subprime deals,” analysts at Fitch Ratings said in a recent client note. While they expect last month’s initial rate increase by the Fed to have only a marginal near-term impact on borrowers, they said the plan to raise rates gradually over four years could increase the monthly debt burden on auto loan borrowers. “Although the rate increases are expected to affect the entire market, Fitch believes...