The trade group first launched its GSE task force in late 2012 with 17 initial executive members, including Bob Ryan, a Wells Fargo executive who is now the acting deputy director of the division of conservatorship at the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The measure also would allow a recipient of a civil investigative demand to appeal the order to the U.S. District Court system…

The problem with the perceived appraiser shortage is not whether VA has enough appraisers but whether there are enough of them in areas where appraisal demands are greater, according to a ranking member of the VA Fee Panel of the Department of Veterans Affairs. As of April 8, 2017, the Fee Panel had 5,006 licensed and certified appraisers working in the eight regional loan centers (RLC) that administer the VA Home Loan Guaranty program, said Kevin Eason, valuation officer with the Denver RLC. Last year, 553 new appraisers were appointed to the panel, whose members accept VA appraisal assignments on a rotating basis. Speaking last week at the annual VA Lenders Conference in Kansas City, MO, Eason noted...

Most of the banks’ non-QMs received that designation due to high debt-to-income ratios.

We understand that some surprising names are beginning to show up at auctions for nonprime, non-agency whole loans...

The largest civil money penalty imposed by the board was $604,000 as part of a settlement with Ocwen Loan Servicing...

On a loan count basis, Michigan represents the largest chunk of the portfolio at 37.1 percent.

Moody’s believes servicing acquisitions by Ocwen will be limited by franchise uncertainty, capital constraints and a highly competitive market…

On Impac’s wish list: buy others, grow servicing and make more non-QM loans…

Average DTI ratios on prime non-agency MBS range from 30.0 percent to 33.0 percent in any given quarter.