Servicing

Companies in the path of the storm have battened down the hatches, as others have prepared for the impact the hurricane could have on home sales and loan servicing in the weeks to come.

It's been a tough year for farmers, and lenders are looking for ways to help those borrowers offset sagging income.

Cybersecurity precautions often focus on preventing a data breach. But what if those precautions aren't enough? Here's a look at steps lenders and servicers can take now to prepare their response in the event of a catastrophic data breach.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 7.

The 1.35% delinquency rate was the lowest since at least 2001, and it marked nearly four years of delinquencies below the 15-year average of 2.21%.

With the myriad home price indices available to the mortgage industry, it's difficult to determine which offers the most cost-effective insights about a particular market. Granularity is a key selling point, but not a one-size-fits-all solution.

The bank's fake account scandal is further reason to make the results of Wells' 2012 Community Reinvestment Act exam public.

Bank of America has ended its agreement with PHH Corp. that saw the Mount Laurel, N.J.-based company perform private-label originations for Merrill Lynch.

More than $200 billion of the most poorly underwritten commercial mortgages originated before the financial crisis come due this year and next, many of them still underwater.

Two decades of experience with offshoring has shown that shifting operations work from knowledgeable, local workers to people in another country with oftentimes limited training comes with risks — of errors, of misunderstandings and of security lapses.