Compliance

Federal investigators said traders may have conspired to rig rates or front-run the two firms in the interest-rate swaps market.

Mortgage Fraud Examiners describes this program as a foreclosure rescue rip-off.

Late payments on loans have risen for the first time since early 2012, but the long-term loan performance trend remains positive.

Many welcome additional lending as a sign of a recovering economy. But some of it is being done with looser underwriting.

Industry groups are seeking a longer delay in premium increases so the Federal Emergency Management Agency can complete an affordability study.

The Nigeria Mortgage Refinance Co. will sell bonds on capital markets and provide long-term financing to lenders that will help them extend more home loans.

Standard & Poor’s estimates that the number of months required to clear shadow inventory has risen to 51 months, 14 more than a year ago.

Ann Thompson intimated that she works almost exclusively with mortgage lenders and servicers examining their prioritization process to assess risk.

A court directed the Department of Housing and Urban Development to clarify the rights of unnamed spouses in Home Equity Conversion Mortgages documents, but HUD is appealing the decision.

The Independent Community Bankers of America is urging Congress to advance legislation to limit the adverse consequences of new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mortgage rules.

The operators of this scheme have been banned from offering any type of mortgage and debt assistance business services to consumers.

Fannie Mae’s home loan volume projection is slightly more pessimistic than it previously forecast, but more optimistic than the Mortgage Bankers Association’s recent downward revision.

Real estate portfolios helped boost net mortgage banking income in the fourth quarter of 2013 when it reduced more headcount to offset declining origination volumes.

Revenue exceeded spending by $53 billion last month, compared with a $1.2 billion deficit in December 2012, the Treasury Department said.

The petitions were filed on four assets to preserve current value and realize full potential value through either a plan of reorganization or orderly marketing and sale.

The Dutch State Treasury Agency has invited Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to bid on the assets.

The company has an edge because it has been offshoring for more than a decade and also automates a lot of tasks, according to SVP and managing director Jan Sternin.

In order to put the flood of government-related mortgage litigation behind them, banks will be forced to increase their litigation reserves.

The industry coalition needs 60 senators to stop unaffordable rate hikes.

While compliance has been properly viewed by most as merely a cost for lenders, it may very well become an investment critical to engaging in the most profitable form of lending.