In the most recent step to encourage fintech innovation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is retooling its policy to spur improved alternative consumer disclosures.

After years of talk about “digital mortgages,” now is the time that lenders should adopt such technology, according to Henry Cason, a senior vice president at Fannie Mae and head of digital products for the government-sponsored enterprise’s single-family business.

Wedbush estimates that originations will fall by 8.0 percent this year…

One lender confessed: “I think we’ve been too accepting of credit problems and we are going to start pulling back now…”

The nonprofit exchange must pay for any “property” associated with CSS…

While total jumbo originations among the lenders increased by 37.1 percent on a quarterly basis, correspondent volume was up by 63.7 percent.

Analysts blamed the reduction in volume on the new lower Principal Limit Factors...

Jerry Selitto, president of Better Mortgage: “We continue to hire and we just opened our second California office in Irvine…”

The Rural Housing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed changes to its single-family housing guaranteed loan program to help certain lenders navigate the loss-claim process. Specifically, the RHS proposes to streamline the loss-claim process for lenders that have acquired title to property through voluntary liquidation or foreclosure. Under current rules, when a lender acquires title to a real estate-owned property, the RHS requires the lender to submit a plan to maintain and market the property. Any change to the plan must be approved by RHS. RHS also provides the lender two opportunities to file a loss claim on an REO property: When the property sells during the permissible marketing period, or after the period (typically from nine to 12 months) if the REO property does not sell. The agency proposes to make changes to the loss-claim payment process when a lender acquires ...

Big Four accounting firm Deloitte has paid $149.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations of misconduct in connection with its role as the independent outside auditor of defunct FHA lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker. The settlement amount includes $115 million in restitution paid to the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Aug. 13, 2018, according to the HUD inspector general. The rest of the payment went to the Department of Justice, which brought the charges on behalf of the government. Deloitte admitted neither to any liability nor to wrongdoing. TBW was an FHA direct endorsement lender and a Ginnie Mae-approved mortgage-backed securities issuer and servicer. It originated, underwrote, acquired and sold mortgages to Freddie Mac and other investors, which used the loans to support MBS issuance or held them as investments. In its heyday, TBW was one of the ...