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The Florida-based brokerage The Okavage Group is challenging the dismissal of its antitrust suit against UWM, filing an appeal on Oct. 17 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

A big part of the trouble with the RBC rule is that Ginnie Mae is essentially using its limited legal authority to qualify government issuers to impose sweeping changes on how IMBs operate writes the Chairman of Whalen Global Advisors.

The rule, finalized Tuesday, enables consumers to share their financial data with third parties. Here are the implications for banks.

The Mortgage Bankers Association finds a chief financial officer, Two Harbors welcomes servicing executives and Assurance Financial taps industry veteran for new C-suite position.

If customers perceive they are dealing with a scripted chatbot, they are likely to be less satisfied with their mortgage servicer, J.D. Power said.

The Top 50 Firm based in Cleveland is the latest to receive a private equity investment, in this case from Lovell Minnick Partners.

California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation is requiring registration by mid-February of debt settlement firms, earned wage access providers, private secondary education financing and student debt relief services.

The agency filed an appeal to a ruling in August, which decimated its noncompete ban, set to go into effect in September.

The suit claims Fairway Independent Mortgage did not pay its loan officers overtime and failed to reimburse them for work-related expenses.

The real estate investment trust and correspondent lender also anticipates improved subservicing costs due to a larger trend in the mortgage market.