Compliance & Regulation

The Treasury Department is considering ways to help underwater borrowers with private mortgages to refinance into a lower interest rate and reduce the risk of default.

Servicers need to pay more attention to changes in home prices and how they relate to delinquency rates.

While pending regulation and other government actions make trends a bit of a moving target, on a net basis they currently argue for a continued increase in subservicing work this year.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s supervision chief for the last seven years is stepping down.

Mortgage revenue at the four largest U.S. lenders is surpassing the costs of faulty home loans and foreclosures from the housing boom as Federal Reserve and government policies help fuel the recovery.

Continuous demand for cloud-based document imaging technology helped more than double Capsilon's revenue in 2012 and may lead to further growth this year.

Hammerhouse forecasts consolidation due to dwindling refinancing but competitive demand for originators who can source purchases in 2013.

A title company owner was sentenced to two years in prison for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to use over $1.5 million in mortgage closing funds for her personal use.

Sen. Bob Corker is urging federal regulators working on the qualified residential mortgage rule to keep it simple and make the QRM rule very similar to the qualified mortgage rule.

It’s been a year and a half since most of the functions of the Office of Thrift Supervision were integrated into the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.