The nation’s largest lender/servicer Wells Fargo drew the most gripes, with Mr. Cooper and Ocwen Financial, finishing second and third respectively.

Across all LTV bands, the share of purchase loans with low FICO scores fell from 12.88% in the second quarter to 12.29% in the third.

The $638.2 million MBS follows a $788.9 million deal that Chase brought to market in August. Only a handful of MBS from other issuers this year have topped $400 million...

Roughly 65.1% of SunTrust’s production came through the correspondent channel.

A single-director structure at the CFPB in which the president has complete authority to put some new in charge will be even more negative for financial firms than the status quo, said one analyst.

Alex Pollock: Even if you allow the companies a credit of 2% interest on their over-payments, they would nevertheless be left with a principal debt exceeding $100 billion.

Co-issuance transfers – a smaller market – actually increased 52.9% sequentially to $59.4 billion…

In a report released Friday morning, Cowen Washington Research Group analyst Jaret Seiberg noted that banking regulators have been using consent decrees for years. “Such orders also tend to include conduct restrictions on the banks,” he said…

loanDepot was also an active seller of bulk MSRs in the third quarter, according to an exclusive tally from Inside Mortgage Trends…