Compliance & Regulation

At least one insider sees no return to a normal level of mortgage litigation for the foreseeable future.

The National Crime Prevention Council is hosting a virtual conference on how consumers, lenders and servicers can prevent mortgage fraud from occurring.

The majority of the stocks in this publication’s Mortgage Industry Equity Composite on Tuesday registered slight gains.

As the first quarter of the year comes to an end, Auction.com Research is forecasting cautious optimism for commercial real estate markets for 2013 and beyond.

The concern seems not to be the concept itself so much as its inclusion among larger structural weaknesses in jumbo mortgage-backed securities.

QuestSoft has made updates to its Compliance Eagle platform so the platform is in compliance with the upcoming Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule changes.

Year-over-year defeasance of loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities increased significantly in 2012 reaching to its highest level since the eruption of the housing crisis in 2007

One reason mortgage credit remains tight is because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have not spelled out their policies on loan buybacks, according to the chief executive of Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

Increased confidence is expected to accelerate consumer spending and improve U.S. housing demand throughout 2013.

DBRS provided its take on recent representation and warranties trends in residential mortgage-backed securities it finds have “the potential to considerably weaken investors’ ability to demand a repurchase.”