The CFPB recently finalized the amendments and changes it proposed this past June to some of its pending mortgage rulemakings slated to take effect this coming January – mostly having to do with the mortgage servicing and loan originator compensation final rules. The revisions include a handful of changes sought by various industry groups. The amendments “principally address several important questions that have emerged during the implementation process for the mortgage servicing and loan originator compensation rules,”...

PHH saw its share price spike late last week after rumors spread that it may sell a large block of mortgage servicing rights.

The CFPB ordered Chase Bank USA, N.A., and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., to refund an estimated $309 million to more than 2.1 million customers for allegedly enrolling them in credit card “add-on” products without their authorization and for charging them for credit monitoring services that they did not receive, the agency announced late last week. The restitution has already taken place, and most affected cardholders should have received their refunds by Nov. 30, 2012. The bureau also ordered Chase to make a $20 million penalty...

Nationstar's new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission offers little in the way of information on the terms of the new $1 billion facility.

The firm estimates that upwards of $300 billion of MSRs are currently on the auction block with another $1 trillion to $2 trillion to come.

Banking regulators believe delinquency rates on HELOCs soon may rise sharply upward as a significant number of second liens reach the end of their draw period.

HUD declined to discuss the contents of the proposed standards or indicate a timetable for a final QM rule.

Two top Democrats on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs called upon the FHA to revise its eligibility policy to enable more distressed borrowers to qualify for loan modification. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-SD, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, urged FHA Commissioner Carol Galante in a letter to eliminate a provision that requires borrowers to be “currently employed” in order to receive loss mitigation assistance from the FHA. The FHA inserted the provision into the FHA guidelines for ...

Genworth U.S. Mortgage Insurance has stepped up its competition with the FHA in the home purchase market by announcing reduced rates and the elimination of certain overlays to make it easier for customers to deliver loans through the government-sponsored enterprises’ automatic underwriting systems. Effective on Sept. 16, the credit policy changes closely align Genworth’s requirements with those for loans approved by Fannie Mae’s Desktop Underwriter or Freddie Mac’s Loan Prospector. Specifically, Genworth will expand guidelines for its Simply Underwrite program to enable lenders to offer affordable low-downpayment financing to ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a final rule aligning its streamlined reporting requirements for small lenders with those of federal banking regulators. HUD’s regulations currently require all supervised lenders and mortgagees, regardless of their asset size, to submit annual audited financial statements as a condition of FHA lender approval and recertification. Federal banking regulators, on the other hand, do not require their “small supervised lenders” to submit audited financial statements, but allow them to submit unaudited financial regulatory reports. Unaudited financial reports include a ...