A past study commissioned by FEMA estimated that the areas designated as special flood areas will increase by 45 percent by the end of this century. In coastal areas, such designations would increase by 55 percent.

Attorney Richard Horn, who helped write the TRID rule, blamed the CFPB, in part...

According to a notice on LinkedIn, BurkeyLoan is looking to hire a chief financial officer and three-dozen other positions...

Kingstown's big bet on Ocwen Financial is looking shaky these days...

A lack of formal guidance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding TRID mortgage disclosures won’t prevent rating services from placing ratings on new non-agency MBS. The rating services are even willing to rate new deals before the Structured Finance Industry Group releases standards for the handling of TRID issues by third-party due diligence firms. However, issuers and investors appear to be less comfortable with liability from the rule the CFPB implemented in October combining the disclosure requirements of the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. Save for a $331.95 million jumbo MBS issued by Two Harbors Investment at the end of March, no firm has issued a deal that includes loans subject to TRID. On March 18, SFIG proposed...

However, the new Cordray letter provides no details on where it will land on errors.

Molly Boesel, a senior economist at CoreLogic, noted that in judicial states, servicers must provide evidence of delinquency to the courts in order to move a borrower into foreclosure.

Comments are due on Friday from working group members that have been participating in the effort.

The publicly traded servicer/originator took in $330.7 million in revenue, a 35.2 percent decline from 1Q15. Its origination revenue was a meager $23.2 million…

Lone Star was the first firm to issue a non-agency MBS backed predominantly by non-QMs...