In a report released Friday morning, Cowen Washington Research Group analyst Jaret Seiberg noted that banking regulators have been using consent decrees for years. “Such orders also tend to include conduct restrictions on the banks,” he said…

Richard Gottlieb, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, called the task force development huge.

Maren Kasper graciously lauded the career staff of Ginnie, telling investors the agency is in good hands…

Mortgage “fintech” specialist Better.com is hitting the ball out of the park these days on originations. Better is based in New York...

Some of the improper fee charges were blamed on clerical errors…

Believe it or not, the two mortgage giants are much closer to getting out from under the FHFA’s thumb than most observers expect…

Look out below: Investor/hedge fund titan Leon Cooperman said on CNBC Wednesday morning that if Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, is elected president the stock market will fall by 25%...

One analyst who has written extensively on the recap-and-release topic estimates the advisory contract could be worth $20 million to $30 million...

One servicing advisor told us he anticipated his clients (smaller shops) would likely take a hit of 2 to 5 bps on their MSRs, but it looks like the big boys are reporting numbers that are worse than that...

The warning comes in the wake of a Government Accountability Office report identifying weaknesses in FHA’s oversight of HECMs, particularly in monitoring, performance assessment and reporting.