Origination

Only four of the members of the Mortgage Industry Equity Composite closed with gains over their Friday stock price.

WCS Lending, Boca Raton, Fla., has revamped its wholesale lending channel, moving the majority of the staff to new offices in Concord, Calif., with updated policies, procedures and products in place.

Oscar Torres pleaded guilty to participating in two separate mortgage fraud conspiracies that involved bank losses of over $20 million.

In issuing the qualified mortgage rule, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wanted to insure the new regulations would not disrupt the mortgage market.

Reflecting on the industry forecast offered by Mortgage Bankers Association economists Jay Brinkmann and Michael Fratantoni, three different images are coming to mind.

Caliber Funding is in the process of merging with mortgage servicer Vericrest Financial.

Attorney Herman Thordsen, whose Mortgage e-Alerts appear on OriginationNews.com, has some advice for originators in a post he made on the Grapevine.

Redwood’s seventh 2013 Sequoia jumbo residential mortgage-backed securities transaction is in the pipeline.

New findings reveal a large number of Americans still know little about credit scores.