After an initial public offering involving Quicken Loans and affiliated companies is completed, founder Dan Gilbert will retain 79% of the voting power in the common stock of the new entity, Rocket Companies.

The mortgage M&A landscape has been a desert for most of the year but, as always, hope springs eternal for deal makers.

Within the mortgage industry, brokers appear to be the majority of borrowers under the Paycheck Protection Program, with 601 companies submitting successful applications.

Delinquencies are leveling off and forbearance requests have declined. On the other hand, expanded unemployment benefits are ending and cases of coronavirus infection are increasing.

Lenders continue to fill new vacancies in mortgage underwriting, processing and closing.

The agency announced an ambitious agenda of new rules on TRID, loan officer compensation and the ATR standards.

Mortgage firms need to reassess their fair lending programs to check for discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to industry attorneys.

Banks and thrifts continued to cede share in the servicing of single-family MBS to nonbanks. The retained portfolios of depository institutions grew at half the rate of overall mortgage debt outstanding. (Includes two data charts.)

Nonbank lenders and mortgage real estate investment trusts stand to gain from expanding the eligibility requirement for FHLBank membership, according to industry comment letters.

To hedge MSRs or not to hedge? That’s the question of the day. It appears that many shops, including the top-ranked Mr. Cooper, are getting in line.