Origination

Mortgage bankers issued $32 billion of Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities in July down almost 8% from June. Still, the market remains strong.

It was a $2.8 million Title VI loan that got a housing project off the ground at the San Felipe Indian pueblo in New Mexico.

The tamper-evident electronic mortgage seal gets put to the test.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported that banks and thrifts originated $186 billion of closed-end single-family loans in the second quarter through retail means, compared to $170 billion in the first.

The roots of the mortgage crisis stretch back to 1996 with the introduction of Freddie Mac’s Loan Prospector and Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter automated underwriting systems.

The Case-Shiller house price index rose 2.3% in both June and May on a nonseasonally adjusted basis and all 20 cities featured in the index posted month-over-month increases in both June and May.

Bank of Oklahoma hired former Fannie Mae executive Elliot Salzman as vice president in charge of correspondent lending.

GFI Mortgage Bankers has agreed to pay more than $3.5 million to resolve a lending discrimination lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

Hudson City Bancorp could no longer defy the odds of interest rate risk, agreeing Monday to sell itself to M&T Bank for $3.7 billion.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is not giving residential loan officers much flexibility when it comes to changing their origination fee.