Compliance & Regulation

Appraisal Logistics is now making its Aim-Port proprietary technology available to other users in three different ways.

Mortgage lenders need to improve their quality dramatically or their margins will not improve.

A former mortgage broker has decided for business reasons that it would be handy to obtain a mortgage loan officer license.

Bound by law in two different ways: the expectation to comply with the new mortgage servicing rules and investor demands, mortgage servicers still are navigating through the regulatory changes.

A Las Vegas mortgage agent was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison for participating in a fraud scheme that generated more than $1.2 million in fraudulent mortgage loans.

A number of real estate investment trusts are taking a close look at "securitization 2.0."

More than a year after attorneys general in nearly every state agreed to a $25 billion deal with the five biggest servicers several officials and housing advocates are crying foul over how banks are complying.

In the modern world, paper documents are an obstacle between servicers and their own potential competitiveness.

Genworth U.S. Mortgage Insurance's CEO said private mortgage insurance is currently very competitive with the Federal Housing Administration.

Demand for prime purchase mortgages picked up over the past three months and a few banks relaxed their credit standards.