The FHA has extended the period during which servicers must identify delinquent Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loans that have become due and payable or against which an initial legal action has been taken because they are no longer curable. In April, the FHA issued guidance that granted mortgagees 180 days, or until Oct. 23, 2015, to review their portfolios and bring defaulted HECM loans into compliance with the mandatory foreclosure timelines. On Oct. 16, the agency extended the timelines through Jan. 18, 2016. The initial guidance laid out loss mitigation options that HECM servicers may provide when property charges are not paid in accordance with the terms of the HECM loan. HECM loans that are subject to a repayment plan may continue as long as they remain current, said the FHA. Otherwise, lender/servicers must follow the requirements in the April guidance. The loss mitigation options are not available ...

At press time, its share price was at $6.66 compared to a 52-week low of $5.66 and an all-time high of $60 a share.

The sale of mortgage servicing rights to Nationstar should transfer by Nov. 1.

In addition to alternative credit scoring models and low downpayment products, panelists suggested more public/private partnerships are needed to create affordable housing communities.

Over the past five quarters, Flagstar has unloaded $25.2 billion of residential servicing rights.

On a year-to-date basis, new ABS production was down 4.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014.

Issuance of non-mortgage ABS fell 31.7 percent from the second quarter of 2015 to the third quarter, with significant declines in most major sectors, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS ranking and analysis. A total of $37.00 billion of ABS were issued in the third quarter, well off the pace set in the first half of the year. On a year-to-date basis, new ABS production was down 4.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014. That puts in jeopardy the string of four consecutive annual increases in ABS issuance since 2010 as the market enters the final lap of the year. Vehicle finance deals remained...[Includes two data tables]

New research from FICO suggests that broader economic conditions have helped limit losses on home-equity lines of credit originated before the financial crisis. For years, analysts have warned about the risks posed by HELOCs after the loans hit 10-year reset periods, prompting payment shock for some borrowers as principal and interest is due as opposed to the interest-only payments that were initially allowed. The risk to banks is seen as particularly harsh because ...

Finally, the jumbo MBS drought is over, or will be by the end of next week.

While lenders scramble to adapt to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s integrated disclosure rule, the agency has released its long-awaited final rule under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, ratcheting up the industry’s data-reporting requirements – and the potential for more fair lending enforcement activity. Among the most significant changes within the 800-page regulation, the final rule modifies which institutions are subject to Regulation C and adopts a uniform loan volume threshold for depository and non-depository institutions. It excludes from institutional coverage firms that did not originate at least 25 closed-end mortgage loans in each of the two preceding calendar years or at least 100 open-end lines of credit in such a time period. The new rule also changes...