Compliance & Regulation

A combination of improving payment behavior and decreasing delinquencies have brought some stability to the mortgage market, according to Equifax.

U.S. home-loan bonds without government backing tumbled last month to leave several types of the debt trading at their lowest prices of the year.

Some observers suspect regulators might punt on finalizing how banks should calculate their capital for residential mortgages, deferring on the issue.

Mortgage Grapevine poster LewM has a problem.

We're hearing Hurricane Sandy is back in the news, with New York City unveiling an ambitious plan to beef up storm defenses and HUD announcing a design competition focusing on building more resilient structures.

House appropriators have voted to slash the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The number of securitized U.S. commercial mortgage loans transferred into special servicing has dropped substantially at roughly 45% over the last year.

Besides DataQuick Information Systems, CoreLogic is buying the credit and flood services operations from DataQuick Lender Solutions.

How can the mortgage banking industry prepare, based on lessons from these previous storms, and protect themselves if and when this happens again?

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico completed the sale of a $438 million portfolio of nonperforming residential mortgage loans at a loss.