Christopher Whalen, senior managing director at KBRA, noted that most of the megabanks “are showing lower mortgage banking lines, which includes MBS desk P&L [profit and loss]. Gain-on-sale is also down about 50 percent year-over-year, so that’s another factor in the balance.”

Was the TRID mess overblown? Tell that to all the mortgage firms that lost money on deals...

However, the new Cordray letter provides no details on where it will land on errors.

Quicken Loans, for example, reported a 4.9 percent increase in total originations compared to 4Q15. An estimated 81.0 percent of the nonbank’s production in 2015 was refinance loans…

Molly Boesel, a senior economist at CoreLogic, noted that in judicial states, servicers must provide evidence of delinquency to the courts in order to move a borrower into foreclosure.

Comments are due on Friday from working group members that have been participating in the effort.

The publicly traded servicer/originator took in $330.7 million in revenue, a 35.2 percent decline from 1Q15. Its origination revenue was a meager $23.2 million…

Thanks to rising loan applications and a stronger-than-anticipated start to the second quarter, merger and acquisition activity in the mortgage industry is at muted levels these days, according to investment banking officials. In other words, lenders will continue to “make hay while the sun shines,” believing that current profit margins are just too good right now to consider selling out. It was originally thought...

Lone Star was the first firm to issue a non-agency MBS backed predominantly by non-QMs...

Will President Trump (if elected) tax mortgage servicers that use offshore workers?