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When subprime lending "comes back" it will be totally different—and out of the past.

Small and midsized mortgage bankers are pairing up to be able to offer clients more services.

Wells Fargo will begin putting more residential loans on its balance sheet, foregoing immediate gain-on-sale income.

FA Business Services, a subsidiary of First American Corp., is unveiling QC@Closing, its new, fully automated loan quality product.

Most originators and servicers have implemented cost improvement programs to survive.

Radian Guaranty said “proactive capital management initiatives” were responsible for it being able to write policies in its main underwriting unit for all of 2012.

An overall slowdown in distressed sales bodes well for home prices holding their own this winter, according to a new report from Amherst Securities Group.

Ken Markison, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s regulatory counsel sees the relationship between the qualified mortgage, the qualified residential mortgage and the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act as three concentric circles.

Suffolk Bancorp is looking to growth after raising capital and purging a large block of troubled loans.

Private equity money continues to look at the mortgage banking industry but they're still scared about the 'dark years.'