Finance

Optimal Blue, a mortgage technology provider owned by private equity firm GTCR, has acquired Comergence Compliance Monitoring.

DLJ Mortgage Capital, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse, is securitizing $91 million of loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration that were once delinquent but are now making timely payments.

Canada's big banks are pursuing wholesale banking, capital markets and select M&A opportunities across the border to hedge against a slowing mortgage market and other economic concerns on the home front.

The loan comes due next month for a marquee office building in Stamford, Conn., but recent developments raise questions about the payoff of the debt.

Two Harbors Investment Corp. is spinning out its commercial real estate lending business to a newly created real estate investment trust, Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc.

EagleBank has been approved as the 13th Ginnie Mae multifamily mortgage-backed securities issuer

The trend of putting ever-smaller pieces of the same commercial mortgages into multiple securitizations requires investors to be extra careful, and will inevitably make workouts of bad loans more complicated.

JPMorgan Chase is marketing another offering of bonds backed by a mix of conforming and jumbo residential mortgages, according to Moody's Investors Service.

The German bank posted two consecutive years of losses partly because of misconduct fines tied to the Libor and other scandals.

U.S. prosecutors working to convict three former Nomura Holdings Inc. mortgage-bond traders are trying to convince jurors that lying about prices amounts to fraud.

Goldman Sachs is marketing nearly $1 billion of commercial mortgage bonds backed primarily by office and retail properties.

The former Bear Stearns headquarters building at 245 Park Avenue, a long-time home to cornerstone financial services tenants as well as Major League Baseball, is the sole property backing a new single-borrower $500 million commercial mortgage securitization.

Brent Beardall, who recently took the helm at Washington Federal, discusses having excess capital, myriad potential fintech partners and why he would tweak — not repeal — Dodd-Frank.

Walter Investment Management Corp.'s first-quarter net income included a $42 million after tax gain from the sale of Green Tree Insurance Agency.

PHH Corp.'s first-quarter net loss more than doubled as the troubled mortgage company dumps its origination unit and servicing rights and rebuilds as a subservicer.

U.S. securities regulators are investigating whether bonds backed by single-family rental homes and sold by Wall Street's biggest residential landlords used overvalued property assessments.

While consumers pay for mortgage insurance policies, carriers like Arch MI are forging new relationships with real estate agents and strengthening lender partnerships to reach the growing segment of millennial and low-to-moderate-income homebuyers.

One of the largest mortgage-bond investors says it would be a mistake for the federal government to relinquish control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without first making major changes to the nation's housing-finance system.

Fannie Mae's involvement in institutional single-family rental financing bodes well for that market's potential growth, says Investability Real Estate's Chief Revenue Officer Dennis Cisterna.

The next single-asset CMBS to hit the market is backed by the land under an iconic Manhattan address known as the Lipstick Building.