The top contributor to the new Credit Suisse jumbo deal is New Penn, which is controlled by MBS co-inventor Lew Ranieri.

A period with protection against liability would allow the CFPB to evaluate any unforeseen issues stemming from TRID.

Certain factions of the industry want the CFPB to develop a plan to provide implementation support during a restrained enforcement period following the Aug. 1 effective date.

Is the bloom off the rose in the single-family home rental market? Some institutional investors are shedding assets.

As a new day of mortgage disclosure practices nears, courtesy of the integrated disclosure rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a strong supporter of eClosings and eMortgages – Fannie Mae – is extending the concept. The government-sponsored enterprise is working on eWarehouse lending in conjunction with eNotes. First, the borrower executes the eNote on a digital closing platform. “The closing system applies a tamper-evident seal to the eNote,” Fannie said ...

The CFPB has done much to secure its “Tableau” system, but there are a few areas that need to be improved, according to an executive summary of a new report from the bureau’s Office of Inspector General. Tableau is a commercial, off-the-shelf tool deployed on the CFPB’s cloud computing – based general support system (GSS) that provides business intelligence capabilities, such as data analysis and integration, for multiple CFPB systems. “Overall, we found that the CFPB has taken a number of steps to secure the Tableau system in accordance with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) and the agency’s information security policies and procedures,” the OIG said. For example, the OIG found that the CFPB has implemented risk ...

It’s Time to Scale Back Dodd-Frank, Industry Says. With a new Republican majority now in power and calling the shots on Capitol Hill, the industry consultants at The Collingwood Group recently asked mortgage industry officials what they thought the new Congress could do to bolster the housing market. Their answer? Rein in Dodd-Frank. “Although just fewer than 50 percent of respondents selected ‘repeal Dodd-Frank’ or ‘abolish the CFPB,’ the comments submitted clearly indicate that these industry insiders prefer a tempered approach with reasonable modifications to these two reactionary reform measures stemming from the crisis,” Collingwood said. “Many respondents stated that the Dodd-Frank Act should be revised to remove barriers to innovation and to reduce the cost of manufacturing a mortgage.” ...

Beginning June 27, the FHA will require electronic appraisals for single-family forward and reverse mortgages to be delivered through an online electronic submission portal prior to endorsement. The Electronic Appraisal Delivery (EAD) portal is a web-based platform that would allow paperless submissions of single-family home loan appraisals, cutting down loan processing time significantly. FHA lenders and their authorized representatives can access the EAD portal by using electronic credentials and showing they are ready to use the new technology. Only appraisals that are compliant with FHA appraisal and data delivery guidelines can be uploaded to the portal. Lenders will be notified of a successful upload or if they need to correct and resubmit an appraisal. Once an appraisal is successfully submitted to the portal, FHA Connection will pull EAD appraisal data and pre-fill certain data fields in the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Program has fully automated the submission of loan-origination documents and the electronic issuance of conditional commitments. This means that RHS’s Guaranteed Underwriting System (GUS), which is used for underwriting single-family rural home loans, has gone paperless, beginning March 28, 2015. Over the past year, USDA Rural Development has implemented changes to streamline and modernize the guaranteed loan program. In December last year, the RHS modified its lender loan-closing system to allow electronic issuance of loan note guarantees. Under the streamlined document-submission process for GUS requests, lenders will upload all required origination documents into GUS following a final submission. This enables lenders to avoid encrypting and emailing docs to USDA. After receiving the docs, GUS will alert the ...

A company called NotaryCam is raising eyebrows – and hopes for the future of e-mortgages – with the deployment of what it claims is the world’s only notary service that securely and legally notarizes documents online within minutes via live web conference from anywhere in the world. Requiring just a standard webcam, NotaryCam, based in Alexandria, VA, can produce a digital version of notarized documents within minutes. And with browser-to-browser ...