Mike Fratantoni, chief economist at the MBA, said the purchase market could keep growing right off the end of the forecast table.

During his career, Chris Nard also headed ORI’s mortgage insurance division, Republic Mortgage Insurance.

As the head of the NAIHP, Savitt has been a frequent critic of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Phoenix Capital is out with a new “flow” servicing offering where the seller will deliver $40 million to $50 million per month in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac product.

In other GSE news, the Senate version of legislation to cap CEO salaries at Fannie and Freddie is moving along and a vote could happen this week…

On a year-to-date basis, new ABS production was down 4.5 percent from the first nine months of 2014.

Firms looking to take over those branches from Stonegate include Skyline Home Loans and Prospect Mortgage...

The CSP joint venture is staffed and “no longer living like poor cousins” at the GSEs themselves.

When the CFPB assumed RESPA enforcement from HUD in July 2011, it pledged to apply its predecessor’s official commentary, guidance and policy statements until further notice, the brief argues.

While federal regulators issued a final rule setting risk-retention requirements for a variety of MBS and ABS in December 2014, uncertainty regarding implementation persists. Industry participants are seeking guidance from regulators on a variety of issues, including the application of risk retention to asset classes that weren’t prevalent when the Dodd-Frank Act was drafted. “It’s absolutely astonishing how much becomes unclear when you actually sit down to build a risk-retention solution,” Rick Jones, chair of finance and real estate groups at the Dechert law firm, said in a recent commentary. He noted...