An Obama administration official stressed that the White House is working to craft a comprehensive plan for housing finance reform but wants input from industry participants.tasked with crafting a plan to reform the government-sponsored enterprises provided a strong response yesterday to criticism of the White House’s lack of progress on GSE reform.
At least one top-five ranked residential servicer is planning to offer for sale a decent-sized package of mostly nonperforming servicing rights over the next month.
A number of mortgage industry experts share the view that a dark cloud has been cast over President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after an appeals court ruled late last week that other recess appointments the president made at the same time were unconstitutional. “The significance of this decision cannot be overstated as it raises a host of questions about the potential impact of a judicial ruling that Mr. Cordray’s recess appointment was similarly invalid,” said Barbara Mishkin, of counsel with the law firm of Ballard Spahr. Edward Mills, a financial policy analyst at FBR Capital Markets, said...
Mortgage lenders seeking new agency approvals from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae have to take a number and wait. And sometimes that wait can last for a year or more, even longer depending on which “agency” a company is dealing with. But all that appears to be changing, according to interviews conducted by Inside Mortgage Finance over the past two weeks. Unfortunately, there’s little in the way of hard numbers to back that up, except for Ginnie Mae. According to an agency spokesman, Ginnie approved...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has a field hearing scheduled for January 17 in Atlanta, and industry sources fully anticipate that the bureau will release its final mortgage servicing rule the night before.
Now that mortgage insurance claims are waning, and new business is on the rise again, there’s increasing talk that Essent Guaranty might file papers to go public this year.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has a mortgage-related field hearing scheduled for Thursday in Atlanta, is expected to issue its final servicing rule this week.
The FDIC approved a final rule this week that will set new appraisal requirements for nonprime mortgages. It’s the third rule from federal regulators in the past six days aimed at subprime mortgages, largely prompted by the Dodd-Frank Act
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