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The lesson in a recent consent order is clear — an MSA cannot shield or rehabilitate an otherwise impermissible arrangement.

Federal Home Loans Banks officials and others want more time to evaluate and comment on a Federal Housing Finance Agency proposal to restrict FHLB membership.

Recent regulatory settlements have made it abundantly clear that medical records are off-limits to lenders trying to verify the incomes of mortgage applicants on long-term disability.

According to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and many other others, the moribund market for private-label residential mortgage-backed securities needs reviving.

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Every successful lender is familiar with those periods when an operations staff that had previously been working feverishly on a big pipeline of loans is suddenly faced with much less work.

Careful underwriting can take away much of the risk of this supposedly risky type of mortgage lending and contribute to profitable new business.

Deutsche Bank officials have received the go-ahead to finance U.S. home lenders, something it has not done since the financial crisis. The bank's plan is to finance a small, but potentially much larger, mortgage segment that falls outside government standards.

The investment management firm Asset Recovery Cos. has merged with the hard-asset lender Yale Mortgage Funding.

Hiring in the mortgage industry slowed in August, as small lenders added just a few hundred workers to their payrolls, but still managed to increase their headcount for the fourth month in a row.