It’s not clear how many of the consumers with unauthorized accounts had mortgages with Wells, though the megabank and its peers have put an emphasis on cross-selling financial products to jumbo customers.
UI’s Laurie Goodman said borrowers who took out mortgages in the past five years are better at paying their mortgages than any other group of mortgage borrowers in history.
Ocwen had a 24.2 percent error rate on a metric involving the timeliness of force-placed insurance notices, well above the 5.0 percent error rate allowed under the settlement…
Although the new requirements could prompt an increase in costs, analysts said a new requirement aimed at increasing the number of times troubled borrowers are evaluated for loss mitigation will be particularly helpful in certain states…
HUD has been criticized by consumer advocates who feel the agency's NPL auctions have unfairly benefitted private equity firms and hedge funds at the expense of troubled borrowers.