Effective immediately, any Ginnie Mae issuer that wants to bring servicing in-house from a subservicer must get the agency’s prior written approval...

Bank of America, ranked third, continued to unload servicing and pared its holdings by 8.9 percent during the second quarter.

Over the past few months, several high level executives have left Nationstar Mortgage.

The average loan balance in the package is $214,935.

But Garrett also noted: “Congress should kill the CFPB, or at least de-fang it, but until it does, total compliance is necessary.” That’s more like it…

One consultant said many lenders are now reviewing their MSAs and may follow the lead of Prospect.

Texas Capital BancShares recently unveiled a new correspondent acquisition program, but it’s not the loans per se that the bank is after – it’s the servicing rights attached to them. “They want to be in the servicing business,” said Chuck Klein, managing partner at Mortgage Banking Solutions. “The reason you enter the correspondent business is to get at the servicing rights. They’re in a great position to do a lot of business.” As for the details, the industry will...

W.J. Bradley Mortgage recently settled a civil suit filed against one of its competitors, RPM Mortgage, regarding the alleged theft of customer loan files by a top-ranked and recruited loan officer. In a statement, RPM said: “We are pleased that the litigation with W.J. Bradley has been settled. As always, the confidentiality of client information is of paramount importance to RPM.” W.J. Bradley, the original plaintiff in the matter, would not comment...

In particular, Wells said it would “withdraw from mortgage marketing services and desk rental agreements with real estate firms, builders and certain other referral sources.”

Purchase mortgages accounted for 58 percent of EverBank's originations in the second quarter.