Servicing

The national foreclosure inventory decreased 21.7% to about 456,000 in January, according to CoreLogic.

Servicers are taking a much-needed hard look at the full range of customer touch-points that they operate, and NMN's 10th annual Mortgage Servicing Conference promises to offer an engaging agenda of hottest trends and topics.

The former Freddie Mac chief executive who joined the board of PHH Corp. during a 2009 proxy fight will resign as a director later this year.

A federal judge has allowed to proceed a lawsuit in which a Belgian investor blames Bank of New York Mellon for about $1.1 billion of losses related to its role as trustee for residential mortgage securities.

Lenders and servicers that haven't complied with the Federal Housing Administration's lower cap on late fees better do it soon.

The mortgage industry provided about 420,000 loan modifications last year to homeowners struggling to make payments, according to Hope Now.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending March 4.

Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquency rates dropped in the fourth quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Stewart Information Services Corp. has terminated Jason Nadeau, group president of the company's mortgage and title services, according to an 8-K filing dated March 1.

Oversight of the four largest mortgage servicers' compliance with the national mortgage settlement is officially over, the watchdog overseeing the process said Thursday.