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Wells Fargo & Co., in a new public filing, hiked its estimate for potential losses stemming from foreclosure-related litigation against the bank.

The return to operating profitability at Radian Group should be in 2012 but for rival PMI, it should take longer to return to profitability because it continues to operate with a thinner capital cushion than its competitors, separate reports from FBR Capital Markets analyst Steve Stelmach declare.

CoreLogic, Santa Ana, Calif., reported net income of $23 million for the first quarter, which included a $25 million pretax gain on the sale of DealerTrack Holdings common stock and a $14 million increase to its tax provision related to a deferred-tax asset reduction because of the Dorado acquisition.

The big question on everyone’s mind at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Secondary Market Conference in New York was, when will we see a thriving nonconforming secondary again?

United Guaranty Corp., the mortgage insurance subsidiary of American International Group, had operating income of $13 million for the first quarter, down from operating income of $73 million for the same period last year.

Bank of America is tripling its network of residential assistance centers, hoping to reach more troubled borrowers in 22 states and help them avoid foreclosure.

The mortgage industry continued to shed jobs in March, the third straight month in which full-time employment in the sector took a dive, according to government figures released Friday morning.

Calling the foreclosure process "fragmented," the Government Accountability Office recommended that banking regulators and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau develop plans for regulating mortgage servicers that would include standardizing foreclosure practices.

The nation’s four largest residential servicers – with the exception of Wells Fargo & Co. – took large writedowns on the asset value of their residential servicing portfolios in the first quarter, according to an analysis done by National Mortgage News.

Senate Republicans declared war on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Thursday afternoon when they vowed to block the nomination of any permanent director unless Congress agrees to sweeping changes to the agency's structure.