Origination

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should provide independent mortgage lenders with clear guidance on how to comply with rules and confirm that good-faith compliance with the bureau's directives will not result in enforcement actions and financial penalties

Prices of loans underlying commercial mortgage-backed securities were on the rise in January, according to DebtX.

Warehouse lenders dramatically expanded the amount of credit they were willing to extend in 2015, accommodating a noted increase in originator demand, according to The Reynolds Group's annual warehouse lending survey.

We're counting down this year's Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the first segment of the list!

The results of the 2016 Top Producers Survey reflect a year of booming business for loan officers, both in terms of the dollar volume and number of loans reported by each loan officer, as well as the tremendous response to the survey itself.

Freddie Mac has expanded the amount of ongoing loan-level data it discloses about mortgages it insures in an effort to boost appetite for reinsurance.

CIT Group, the commercial lender run by John Thain, found a material weakness in the accounting of a mortgage business, causing the company to delay the filing of its annual report to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Home prices rose 6.9% in January compared to a year ago, according to CoreLogic.

Ocwen Financial Corp. and Walter Investment Management Corp. both recorded full-year losses in 2015, though that is where comparisons between the two companies cease.

New services seek to replace lender processes that often involve manually updated spreadsheets and other efforts pieced together to meet steepening regulatory requirements for vendor management.