JPMorgan Chase recently won in a long-running lawsuit with Deutsche Bank, limiting potential liabilities it inherited from purchasing the embattled Washington Mutual in 2008 at the behest of federal banking regulators. U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer in Washington, DC, ordered that liabilities for representation-and-warranty breaches be split between JPMorgan and WaMu Mortgage Securities Corp. The judge decided that JPMorgan would be liable only to the extent that the liabilities were on WaMu’s books as of Sept. 25, 2008. The remaining liabilities would remain at WaMu. Only a short order was released...

So where is the non-QM business going? Unless, you’re talking non-QM jumbos, it’s safe to say nowhere fast...

CFPB Director Richard Cordray overrode a $6.4 million penalty set by an ALJ in the matter and ordered PHH to pay $109.2 million...

Banks, thrifts and credit unions reported a slight uptick in the amount of unused HELOC commitments compared to the end of last year.

Fitch noted that a transaction manager’s compensation agreement will be important in determining any benefit...

When asked why he thought non-QM lending has been so weak he said, “The consumer is resistant to the pricing.”

The six, including Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, and Mike Crapo, R-ID, are seeking additional information on such things as the role mortgage insurers play in credit risk...

One problem with the (latest) refi boom ending is that some loan officers working at net branches start getting nervous and begin seeking better product menus elsewhere...

RPM Mortgage recently agreed to pay the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau $19 million to settle allegations that it violated the agency’s loan officer compensation rule by steering consumers to costlier mortgages and then paying illegal bonuses to LOs for bringing in the higher yielding paper. But shortly after the ink was dry on the June 4 settlement announcement, the privately held RPM and its owner and CEO Robert Hirt went on the offensive, trying to give its side of the story in regard to one pertinent fact: the higher yielding mortgages cited by the agency. A spokeswoman for RPM contacted...

After being indicted for loan fraud in 2012, Abacus Federal Savings Bank was acquitted of grand larceny and conspiracy charges last week that stemmed from a case brought by the New York District Attorney’s office that involved Fannie Mae. The small Manhattan-based bank, which primarily serves Chinese-Americans in the New York region, was accused of mortgage fraud and falsifying documents and then selling those faulty mortgages to Fannie from 2005 to 2010. Following a four-month trial and nine days of deliberations, a New York jury acquitted...