Investors might be seeing better performance from the credit rating agencies these days. In two new reports, the Securities and Exchange Commission says ratings firms are more compliant and are utilizing information technology to a greater extent, all while remaining competitive, especially some of the smaller ones.

Syncora Guarantee, Inc., an insurer of structured-finance transactions, has settled a long-running dispute with Greenpoint Mortgage Funding over hundreds of millions of dollars in losses on bundles of soured home-equity mortgages held in trust.

Progressives are worried that in 2019 a new Federal Housing Finance Agency director will takeover, undoing much of what they like about the current system…

Regulators are set to announce that the past-due change is being delayed – and reconsidered…

When Fannie and Freddie request a fresh draw of taxpayer funds from Treasury to deal with their DTA "problem," it will poison the well for conservative Republicans...

Mortgage lenders pressing to get compliant with the new data collection and reporting require-ments under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act got a bit of a reprieve, as the Consumer Financial Pro-tection Bureau and the other prudential regulators announced they would take “good-faith efforts” ap-proach to enforcement.

FHA saw many of the policies under the previous administration shelved during the first year of the Trump administration, including a proposal for a 25 basis point reduction in the annual mortgage in-surance premium, while waiting for a new commissioner to head the program.

Like scores of other Trump appointees, a final vote on Montgomery’s nomination as assistant secretary for Housing was not acted upon by yearend…

Aggressive FCA enforcement and steep settlement amounts have caused some banks to exit from the FHA market.

PHH Mortgage is in the process of transforming into a subservicing specialist.