Much of the decline came right at the top as Wells Fargo reported a drop of $19.85 billion in total mortgage servicing during the first quarter.

At a recent American Bankers Association conference, Cathryn Abshier, fair lending officer and vice president of compliance at Mr. Cooper, said the nation’s third-largest servicer is seeing state regulators focus on disparate impact in their fair lending examinations.

loanDepot offers paid apprenticeships for entry-level employees and an Uber-like model that allows employees to work "anytime, anywhere, on their own schedule."

Varde partnered with Deephaven in 2014 to help fuel the lender's origination of non-QM loans. Pretium is a signficant player in the single-family rental market. Last fall the firm agreed to buy specialty servicer Selene Holdings from Lew Ranieri and his partners.

MIAC has established a bid deadline of June 18…

The CFPB said the practice was not limited to a specific location, loan officer or time period...

Freddie CEO Don Layton: "People tell me, ‘Well, let’s have a common AUS that everyone can use.’ My only data point on that is that to have a common system on the backend for the security (UMBS) took seven years and $2 billion to build…”

Will institutional investors like Berkshire Hathaway line up to buy a new class of stock issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? We may know soon...