The new remedies framework includes more transparency about the factors a GSE will weigh in determining whether a defect is significant.

Meanwhile, PHH's partner, Realogy, this week said it intends to raise $1.15 billion through the sale of senior notes.

Fear and loathing over marketing service agreements heats up. Kickbacks?

Roughly 45 percent of FHA-insured, first-lien purchase mortgages had annual percentage rates in excess of the reporting threshold...

The former CFPB official said non-W-2 borrowers – like the self-employed, retirees and people with seasonal income – account for 30 to 40 percent of applicants for jumbo mortgages...

Like many banks that have had run-ins with the DOJ and HUD IG, Fifth Third's FHA volume has fallen dramatically.

In general, IBM has rarely talked to the media about Seterus and its contract with the government-sponsored enterprise, or much else, for that matter.

It appears that lenders were encouraging their loan officers to get applications in before the Oct. 3 implementation of the new RESPA-TILA integrated disclosure rule.

When the news broke about Stonegate this past summer, FBR issued a note to its clients saying that, “We expect the company has two options: hire a replacement CEO quickly, or sell the business altogether.”

The flow of FHA purchase mortgages jumped 37.7 percent from the second to the third quarter, and VA purchase mortgages rose 37.9 percent over the same period.