Loan Think

Have you made excuses to your friends, family and even yourself as to why you have to work late?

Success in business, just as in team sports, depends on using the individual with the right skills to score.

There is still much uncertainty as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves into enforcement mode.

New Year's resolutions are beginning to fade and the reality of the shrinking origination market has settled in for most residential mortgage lenders.

What does it mean to be a borrower returning to the market from job loss, credit challenges, foreclosure and/or bankruptcy.

How federal regulators fabricated a media narrative with verbal sleights of hand.

There are five reasons why mortgage originators should be welcoming this change.

A technical reading of the rule supports excluding charges by a broker's title affiliate from the 3% fee cap. But without a specific interpretation from the CFPB, it would be unwise to risk a loan's QM status.

Big data will hit its stride when tailored to vertical markets and their specific needs. Mortgage Servicing is an excellent example.

Brian Scott Cohen of Wells Fargo's Brooklyn, N.Y. office is now the provisional leader in Origination News' 2013 Top 200 loan officer survey.