In all likelihood, the FHA could be looking at more than $200 billion in total originations this year, Brian Chappelle predicted.

A lawyer by trade, Watt noted: “Unfortunately, legal constraints prevent me from saying much about this because we are in the period between the end of the comment period and the time we issue the final rule.”

It's not everyday that a nonbank, nonprime lender gains access to the Federal Home Loan Bank system...

Beginning next year, Fannie will require seller/servicers to use trending credit data when underwriting single-family borrows through DU.

The performance comes at a time when the agency increasingly seems concerned about the capital cushion of certain fast-growing nonbanks.

The announcement by Freddie Mac might be viewed as a sign that the GSEs are competing once again.

Controlled by Loan Star Funds, Caliber has $1.0 billion to spend on funding non-agency mortgages.

“Had the proposal been implemented, it could have had a chilling effect on FHA lending, to the detriment of the borrowers served by the FHA program,” according to lawyers at K&L Gates.

A spokesman for Stonegate Mortgage confirmed that Bolstad is no longer with the lender/servicer, but had little else to say on the matter.

The Collingwood Group, a Washington-based consultancy that built its practice on Ginnie Mae work and issues tied to the government-sponsored enterprises, has received approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to open a broker/dealer unit. The new division is called Collingwood Capital Advisors and will be headed by Mark DeGennaro, who joined TCG as a managing director in February 2011 to head what was then a new effort to build the consultancy’s hedge fund/private equity group. Although Collingwood Capital is now a registered broker/dealer, it will not be involved...