The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority started publishing pricing data for a broad range of ABS this week in an effort to increase transparency. Industry participants suggest that the new disclosures will prompt a decrease in trading and have some impact on pricing. The ABS pricing details are available through the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine and include deals issued as 144A private placements. “The dissemination of transaction information in ABS is...

Industry analysts suggest that the rule will prompt a number of changes in the MBS and ABS markets.

Several well-known actors, including Henry Winkler, Robert Wagner and Fred Thompson, have appeared in such ads over the past few years, vouching for the products and their safety.

The FHA expects to finalize the proposed rule in August of this year, according to HUD’s new regulatory agenda, although the agency rarely comes close to its projected rulemaking timelines.

The CFPB case likely won’t make Merrill Lynch feel good about PHH, but we could be wrong. The two go way back…

You might say that investor (and former Wall Streeter) John Devaney is bullish on Ocwen Financial...

In fact, 2014 was the first year since 2006 that purchase mortgages accounted for more than half of total residential originations.

Over the past year, RPM has been in the hunt to buy other mortgage companies, investment banking sources told IMFnews.

According to Moody’s rating scale of long-term corporate obligations, obligations rated Caa are judged to be of “poor standing” and are subject to “very high" credit risk...

Some lenders have predicted delays ranging from a few days to more than a month.