All of the loans in the new JPM deal were originated by First Republic Bank, with seasoning of seven years...

Consultant Joshua Rosner of Graham-Fisher said the letter is significant because it marks the first time that the ICBA has joined with civil rights groups and housing organizations on a GSE-related matter.

The announcement follows recent administrative actions against three VA lenders that were penalized for cherry picking and refinancing unseasoned loans…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Now Donald Trump wants her to run the CFPB. I will put a hold on her nomination – and fight it at every step – until she turns over all documents..."

Ed Robinson, senior vice president in charge of mortgage banking for Fifth Third, told Inside Mortgage Finance his bank made a conscious decision to jump into the MSR acquisition arena…

Cowen: “We see the nomination of Kathy Kraninger as a way to keep OMB Director Mick Mulvaney in charge of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for years to come..."

Mortgage servicers believe they already face intense regulatory scrutiny...

Rep. Jeb Hensarling: "I’m confident that, under Kathy’s leadership, gone are the days of wasting more than $240 million of taxpayer money to renovate a building it doesn’t even own and paying staff to perform research that has nothing to do with the Bureau’s mission..."

Ginnie Mae has added a new metric to make it easier for approved issuers to track the prepayment rates of single-family loans underlying they have delivered into mortgage-backed securities. The new prepayment metric would enhance Ginnie’s Issuer Operational Performance Profile (IOPP) tool, which was launched in 2015 to help issuers measure their performance against the agency’s standards. The new tool is the latest move by Ginnie to ensure the integrity and market predictability of Ginnie MBS. The prepayment tool will be available to lenders beginning June 25. The announcement follows an agency administrative action last week against three VA lenders that were penalized for cherry picking and refinancing unseasoned VA loans not to benefit borrowers but to charge them higher fees. The lenders – Freedom Mortgage, SunWest Mortgage Co. and NewDay USA – were among nine issuers that ...

Now that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has sworn in a new FHA commissioner, reverse mortgage lenders are hoping to see some changes in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program. The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association is planning to ask FHA Commissioner Brian Montgomery for changes in the HECM program, particularly at the back end, to make it more profitable for lenders. Peter Bell, the group’s chief executive officer, believes there are opportunities to reduce the cost of the HECM program to the FHA fund by having better servicing procedures. “We would like to see certain loss mitigation procedures in the new HECM rules to be made available to all reverse-mortgage loans,” he said. Some of those procedures apply only to loans originated on or after the new rules became effective, such as “cash for keys.” Cash for keys is a cash offer by a lender to a ...