The upcoming White House meeting on mortgage and housing issues may not address loan standards at all. Wells confirms plan to hire MSR 'project manager.'
Bank of America is once again offering for sale a large package of mortgage servicing rights and at least a half-dozen or so buyers are lining up to bid.
The independent foreclosure review process established by federal regulators for 14 servicers was deeply flawed, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, said on Thursday in response to a report on the reviews by the Government Accountability Office. Waters said she will introduce legislation next week to address problems relating to use of outside contractors for enforcement actions.
Major banks significantly increased their use of principal reduction loan modifications in 2012, according to new data from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The eight banks and one thrift tracked by the OCC completed 126,283 principal reduction mods in 2012, up from 43,396 the previous year. Principal reduction was used on 20.0 percent of all loss mitigation actions taken by the firms in the fourth quarter, up from an 8.5 percent share in the fourth quarter of 2011. Mortgages in non-agency MBS ...