New technologies such as electronic closings, data validation services and income calculators are helping to increase quality assurance standards and mitigate risk, according to panelists at MBA’s compliance and risk management conference.

The Federal Reserve should allow banks to increase issuance of credit-linked notes, according to House GOP lawmakers.

With interest rates declining, mortgage fraud is a growing concern.

A Florida broker’s complaint alleging UWM violated antitrust laws and attempted to monopolize the wholesale mortgage market failed, after no plausible evidence was provided.

A downpayment assistance program “polls great” but “we are just not going to see” it unless Democrats have a supermajority of the Senate, said David Dworkin, president and CEO of the National Housing Conference.

The Structured Finance Association warned the CFPB's servicing proposal would decrease the value of mortgage servicing rights, leading to a substantial negative impact on the secondary mortgage market.

The Structured Finance Association warned that if servicers incur uncompensated expenses for a lengthy period it would decrease the value of mortgage servicing rights.

The trade groups claim the Third Circuit ruling relied on an “artificial” interpretation of CFPA’s definition of a covered person.

The presidential candidates have vastly different priorities when it comes to addressing the nation’s housing policies.

Mortgage fraud activity is expected to increase as interest rates come down, according to Sean Sowards, a senior director at Fannie Mae.