Servicing

SMART Servicing, LLC, an affiliate of Steel Mountain Capital Management, is offering new software that provides the residential mortgage loan market with loan level information designed to help users control loss severity.

Freddie Mac has made plans to issue a new three-year dollar-denominated Reference Notes security and price it Thursday to settle Friday, Aug. 20.

Small banks and credit unions that rely on table funding to originate mortgages will be treated just like "mortgage brokers" under the new compensation rule issued by the Federal Reserve Board.

It's no secret that loan repurchase requests have been hammering the mortgage earnings statements of the nation's megalenders. From Bank of America to Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, all have suffered to varying degrees.

On Aug. 9, 2010 in San Francisco, Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $20 million to settle a nationwide lawsuit brought by mortgage consultants who alleged they were misclassified as exempt by the bank so they would not have to be paid overtime.

The national mortgage loan 60-day delinquency rate decreased again in the second quarter of 2010 by 6.67%, suggesting that credit conditions in the housing sector are stabilizing, according to the latest quarterly analysis from TransUnion.

Communities that are currently struggling from the effects of fraudulent mortgage transactions may still be suffering years from now, according to new research released by Interthinx.

Nonprofit Hope Now is estimating so far in 2010 the industry has completed about 975,000 permanent loan modifications, both government and private, getting close to the one million mark.

The economic crisis has taken a toll on U.S. commercial mortgage backed securities casting $92 billion into special servicing through the second quarter and rising concerns for the market's future performance.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform bill goes a long way toward addressing the issues that led to the meltdown of the private-label securities market, MBS pioneer Lewis Ranieri told the Treasury Department's conference on the future of the housing finance system.