Origination

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to keep credit flowing by allowing lenders to rely on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Federal Housing Administration automated underwriting systems to meet the underwriting standards of the new qualified mortgage rule that was issued early Thursday morning.

Aries Capital has secured a $26.5 million 10-year nonrecourse commercial mortgage-backed security first-mortgage loan to finance a former lamp factory turned green property.

Regulators are focusing on what an executive with the Compliance Group termed “misleading and deceptive advertising,” but what that exactly means is left up to the interpretation of the enforcement agency.

Radian Guaranty Inc. did $37.1 billion in primary new mortgage insurance written in 2012.

Angelo Mozilo, the former head of Countrywide and one-time mortgage industry icon, has become a polarizing figure in wake of the firm’s collapse and its contribution to the financial crisis.

For smaller originator The Bank Mortgage Network, the struggle to stay legal and in business has led to a strategy that includes a nod to high-tech manufacturing.

There’s yet another industry acronym in the works. And this one may make you want to vomit.

Berkadia Commercial Mortgage acquired closely held Hendricks & Partners to expand in apartment sales and research.

Mounting signs of improvement in residential markets may bring more players back to the origination business.

National Mortgage Insurance Corp. has now been approved by New York State to do business.