The panel Mozilo spoke on was billed: “Join two titans of the industry as they discuss the past, present and future of the mortgage industry.”

The Senate late last week narrowly confirmed Kathy Kraninger as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In her first public remarks, the new director set a more moderate tone for the watchdog agency than recently departed acting Director Mick Mulvaney did during his tenure.

Marshall has a long resume in financial services, including stays at Bank of America, The Blackstone Group and other shops…

The White House this week finally made up its mind on a new regulator for the government-sponsored enterprises, picking conservative economist Mark Calabria to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Now comes the hard part: Getting the Senate to hold confirmation hearings and actually approve him.

Federal Financial Analytics calculates the trigger will be pulled by mid-2019.

The nomination had been expected for several weeks now and paves the way – quite possibly –for limitations on GSE pilot programs, loan parameters and secondary market liquidity.

It stands to reason that with production declining mortgage firms might have the upper hand over their sales personnel, but it’s never that simple...

The annual salary for the assistant director to head the office of cost-benefit analysis is between $200,595 and $247,500.

Kraninger on the recent name change of the agency: “I care more about what the agency does than what it is called…”

Tom Piercy of Incenter Mortgage Advisors: “Calabria is not an advocate for our industry – but he is also being appointed by the president, who does not want housing to falter between now and 2020.”