MBA also urged the regulator to create guardrails to prevent any individual shareholder from gaining control of Fannie and Freddie after they’ve exited conservatorship…

A Supreme Court ruling in June backed the president’s power to remove the CFPB director without evidence of wrongdoing.

Caliber is worried that if interest rates rise from current levels, the volume of prepayments and mortgage payoffs is likely to decline, which will reduce the cash available to fund servicing-advance obligations.

Consultant David Lykken believes how well a lender can downsize its operations when business slows will determine whether its stock price gets crushed...

The agencies securitized almost $592 billion of single-family refi loans, a 17.8% increase from 2Q. Refis accounted for 64.7% of the market during the third quarter. However, purchase-mortgage activity increased more in percentage terms...

The rescission of the bulletin does not mean MSAs are presumably legal. Instead, it will depend on how the business relationship is structured and implemented.

The 10-year Treasury currently is offering a yield of 0.77%, the highest reading since early June…

DBRS saw a relatively small 5.7% decline in MBS ratings from the first to the second quarter, and actually upped its ratings of expanded-credit mortgage MBS...

More importantly, the analyst noted, the council threatened to impose still stricter standards or designate the GSEs as systemically important financial institutions if the capital rule was materially softened.

One thing seems universal: originators are swamped with applications and inquiries, but are short of workers...