Non-agency MBS sponsors will be allowed to retain the risk portion on vertical or horizontal tranches of the security or a combination of the two.

Under the CFPB’s new rule, financial institutions will be able to post privacy notices online instead of distributing an annual paper copy.

FIRREA – ushered in during the nation’s savings and loan crisis – has four notable elements which make it an attractive path to prosecution...

HUD's Castro noted that the VA program limits its loan guarantee to a maximum of 25 percent, leaving many lenders exposed and reluctant to offer VA-guaranteed loans.

After all, didn’t America suffer a housing “depression” because credit was too loose? Some GOP conservatives in Congress live by the edict: those who can own; those who can’t rent…

At press time, the firm’s share price was getting crushed, down 25 percent on the day to a new 52-week low of $19.89.

This could mean lenders would require borrowers to lock interest rates only during business hours or even early in the day.

Buyers of “bulk” Ginnie mortgage servicing rights will have to meet the test by January 2015.

Charbonneau, Klein and other advisors report that mortgage M&A activity is the strongest it has been in years.

What does IBM have to do with the mortgage business? Actually quite a bit, IBM is one of Fannie Mae’s largest technology vendors...