Compliance

Regulators should boost oversight of the largest real estate investment trusts that use borrowed money to invest in mortgage-backed securities because rising interest rates may push the firms into asset sales that destabilize markets.

Both companies will offer their respective solutions via the software-as-a-service model.

If a storm similar to Hurricane Sandy makes landfall, how many homeowners would default on their mortgage?

FBR & Co. is leading the sale, according to a regulatory filing by NMI Holdings.

Members of the Senate Banking Committee quickly took sides in the brewing battle over the nomination of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board, but it was already apparent that she was ultimately likely to win confirmation.

Foreclosures recently have been falling throughout the country for an extended period of time, and the government-sponsored enterprises continue to do their part in assisting at-risk homeowners from losing their properties.

It was predictable that ABS East would be rife with criticism of the way eminent domain is being used by local governments to seize mortgages.

JPMorgan priced the top-rated portion of its JPMCC 2013-INN CMBS about 10 basis points wide to guidance.

Sears, the other major retail tenant in retail CMBS that remains under credit stress, is listed as a tenant in 197 loans compared to 254 loans for JCPenny.

A group of mortgage-bond investors urged the U.S. attorney general not to let banks saddle them with costs by pledging relief for borrowers to settle U.S. investigations.

The nation's four largest banks are holding $57 billion of seriously delinquent loans that they've been slow to move into foreclosure over concerns that the Federal Housing Administration will refuse to cover the losses and hit them with damages.

Using technology is important for the monitoring of an appraiser from the time he or she starts working for an originator.

The government-sponsored enterprises are making significant progress toward creating a common securitization platform for the issuance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac MBS.

Deutsche Bank is collaborating with Bloomberg on a new option-adjusted spread model for agency mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations.

A revival of U.S. issuance of mortgage bonds not guaranteed by the government is being stymied by the Federal Reserve’s debate over when to reduce record stimulus.

American International Group’s mortgage insurer, whose biggest rival is a U.S. agency, is wooing borrowers with the prospect that they’ll avoid delays tied to the partial government shutdown.

State housing finance agencies and their mortgage programs are being affected by the federal government shutdown that is making it more difficult for lenders to verify borrowers’ income and Social Security numbers.

Richard Jungen, the founder of Central States Mortgage Co., along with three associates, was charged in a federal indictment with a scheme to defraud the CUSO’s 25 credit union investors by siphoning more than $9 million to themselves.

Because traditional credit scores can be inadequate, more and more lenders should be turning to supplemental FCRA-compliant data to paint a more accurate picture.

Regulators' plan to unite two separate mortgage standards mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act is deepening the focus on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ever-expanding role in the mortgage sphere.