The FHLBs and Office of Finance must now be more specific and include descriptions of their outreach activities in regard to minorities and women.

Fidelity, a market leader in title insurance, has a market capitalization rate of $10.6 billion and is headed by William Foley, age 70, who has a history of spinning off companies.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors, MIAC and The Prestwick Group are working on deals as well.

Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie all posted solid gains in volume during April, but Ginnie had the strongest increase with issuance rising more than 32 percent…

Many shops continue to recruit for LOs but with the caveat they have strong ties to Realtors and homebuilders.

It was clear from a panel discussion at the Urban Institute this week that MSRs have grown in importance as a form of collateral...

Delinquencies on commercial MBS hit a post-recession low in January before inching up 10 basis points to 4.72 percent the next month, according to figures compiled by Fitch Ratings Service. Then again, Fitch appears to be mostly bullish on the sector, noting that the uptick in late payments was caused by a change in its methodology and that under the old rules delinquencies would have fallen to 4.55 percent. The ratings change excluded deals backed by wireless towers, outdoor advertising and what it calls “certain other non-traditional transactions.” Hotel collateral has...

Industry attorneys noted there has been a resurgence in redlining cases since the mortgage market unraveled in 2007...

One advisor reminded us that in the world mortgage M&A many potential deals go south...

The new sunset date is December 31, 2016.