Standard and Poor's is fighting back against the federal government in its $5 billion MBS fraud case.

The non-agency/jumbo market cannot truly revive until Congress passes laws aiding transparency and decreasing risk to potential participants.

Stearns Lending, one of the fastest growing servicers in the U.S., has hired a new manager to help it with servicing acquisitions.

Residential lenders can rest easy: the GSEs aren't about to hike their net worth minimums. Also: the CFPB shows some love to banks.

ASF suggests that one way to reduce the market share of the GSEs is to hike guaranty fees once again.

Although Rep. Hensarling rebuffed Cordray, the CFPB chief delivered the agency’s semi-annual report to the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday morning.

Modeling changes that have been proposed by insurance commissioners could increase loss forecasts and prompt sales of non-agency MBS.

The Basel III accords may never happen, but if they do, some large servicers will have to reduce their MSR footprint.

A top official from the CFPB last week tried to tamp down industry anxiety over the presence of bureau enforcement attorneys during examinations. It’s more about maximizing synergies and promoting efficiency and consistency than it is a harbinger of trouble, he basically said. “Our approach of having enforcement personnel involved in the examination process has garnered a great deal of attention,” CFPB Acting Deputy Director Steven Antonakes conceded before attendees at the American Bankers Association’s government...

Sometimes the most significant thing to come out of an encounter with a newsmaker is not what he says but what he hears. Such was the case last week when CFPB Acting Deputy Director Steven Antonakes addressed attendees at the American Bankers Association’s government relations event in Washington, DC, and took questions afterwards. During the question-and-answer portion after his prepared remarks, one attendee told Antonakes that small banks in Oklahoma are exiting the mortgage business in a number of small communities over fears of potential...