The mortgage industry can expect more enforcement actions from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the rest of the year, particularly related to fair lending issues, according to stakeholders.

HUD's delinquency report shows that 11.50% of loans in the seriously delinquent category involved DPA provided by relatives, while only 9.07% of those with DPA financed by government entities were in the seriously delinquent category.

If foreclosures mushroom, mortgage vendor Altisource could be sitting in the catbird’s seat. Standing in its way: forbearance plans.

The new standards are based on the government-sponsored enterprises’ cash flow needs during periods when they may not have access to the debt market.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can purchase early forbearance loans until Aug. 31, but they still have to impose steep loan-level price adjustments to limit their risk of losses.

Changing standards for the qualified-mortgage patch could lead to increased use of proprietary automated underwriting systems.

The “implied guarantee subsidy” that underpins the FHLBank operations is the reason why financial institutions of all kinds are clamoring for membership, according to former Freddie CEO Don Layton.

In its first cybersecurity-related enforcement action, the New York regulator charged First American Financial with inadvertently disclosing more than 850 million personal title insurance documents.

According to Ted Tozer, former Ginnie Mae president, lenders experienced aggressive disparate-impact litigation during the previous administration, resulting in initial support for revising the disparate impact rule.