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Industry groups are urging the House and Senate appropriators to include $5 billion in additional commitment authority for the FHA multifamily and health care programs to prevent a possible shutdown of those loan programs.

Ally Bank has reached an agreement to sell a portfolio of more than $85 billion in agency mortgage servicing rights to Ocwen Financial Corp. for roughly $585 million.

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Rob Irby believes living up to what he tells his clients is the difference maker for his success as an originator.

The private mortgage insurers, Radian Group and MGIC Investment Corp., finished Monday as the biggest gainers among Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks.

The nation’s title insurance underwriters, dominated by four national players but also including approximately 30 regional companies, as a whole are appropriately capitalized.

It is a sign of both the tough economy and the changing regulatory environment for mortgage servicers that they are upgrading the technologies they use to manage mortgage defaults.

VantageScore Solutions has reconstructed its credit scoring model both to aid lender implementation and consumer understanding.

Prime borrowers whose loans are making up the small number of private mortgage-backed securities pools issued since the start of 2010 are prepaying at rapid rates.

A $390 million large-loan commercial mortgage backed securities deal backed by a property on New York’s Fifth Avenue is coming to market with preliminary ratings from Kroll.