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The two executives in their motion seek to demonstrate that “the SEC’s remaining claims have no basis in fact."

The former executive director of a New Mexico Housing Authority and her husband each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy charges to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds and theft of government property.

Equifax has integrated its Point in Time and Spectrum Verification Service tools into its retro income verification platform designed to enable users to reduce mortgage loan repurchase requests.

Radian Group said its unit guaranteeing home loans may need additional capital if U.S.-backed housing finance companies tighten their demands.

President Obama’s administration significantly overstated statistics from a year-long mortgage-fraud initiative, including total number of victims, their losses suffered and number of individuals criminally charged.

For the first time in five years, policymakers appear to have a significant opportunity to enact broad housing finance reform.

Refinancings have fallen off the cliff and the mortgage industry is bracing for a decline in originations.

Following its aggressive mortgage servicing portfolio expansion, Walter Investment Management Corp.’s drastic $142.8 million annual net income increase in the second quarter was not much of a surprise.

We're hearing there is a growing consensus that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be wound down and replaced with a new system that relies more on private capital than government guarantees.

It is not easy to be an agency mortgage investor, particularly not with uncertainty about the longevity of Fed intervention and government-sponsored enterprise reform pending.

An Orange, N.J., paralegal has pleaded guilty to participating in a mortgage scam that cost defrauded financial institutions at least $2 million.

The Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., business operator is alleged to have obtained $2.2 million in mortgages using false information, including some agency loans.

The American Securitization Forum is urging mortgage servicers and trustees to reject offers that the city of Richmond, Calif., is making to buy mortgages out of private trusts at deeply discounted prices or face eminent domain proceedings.

Comparative data on servicers of securitized residential mortgage loans show RMBS investors are likely to shoulder higher carrying costs due to long and lengthening completed foreclosure timelines.

Eminent domain is a bad idea. Let’s put this as clearly as possible: cities, counties, don’t do it.

The federal government’s 2009 Home Affordable Modification Program requires the bank to offer permanent adjustments to homeowners who met the terms of a trial-period modification.

Residential Capital’s disclosure statement for its reorganization was opposed by the U.S. Trustee, which oversees bankruptcy cases for the government.

Investors Thursday seemed to think Annaly's earnings didn't look too bad, especially considering that its mortgage investments—as its CEO describes them—can be “somewhat of a pain in the…”

A Connecticut company struggling to escape extra regulatory scrutiny has taken a big step along the road to recovery.