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Robert Meachum, a 20-year mortgage industry veteran, is joining Stonegate Mortgage Corp. as executive vice president of servicing.

In collaboration with Citi and the Foundation for Small Business Development Safeguard is offering small business training sessions to minority owned firms.

Residential Capital should get more time to file an exclusive plan to reorganize while the bankrupt mortgage company remains in mediation with creditors.

A residential mortgage law firm and title insurance provider have decided to join forces in order to help lenders and servicers respond to the demand of REO properties flowing into the market.

Predicting exactly what the world will look like 11 years after the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law is a stretch, but history shows that congressional updates to the regulatory structure are cyclical and occur roughly once a decade.

Executives from equity real estate investment trust American Realty Capital Properties rang the closing bell at the National Association of Securities Dealer Automated Quotation system’s headquarters, signaling the closing of the trading day on March 1, 2013.

We only have to reflect on Long Term Capital Management, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to see the value in validating our models.

Everyone in the mortgage banking industry is dealing with the effect of the foreclosure crisis which brought about unprecedented regulatory pressures and the need to reinvent the way mortgage servicers do business on a daily basis while planning for the long term.

Most stocks in this publication’s Mortgage Industry Equity Composite fared well in terms of relative percentage gains Monday, particularly mortgage insurers MGIC and Radian.

MFA Financial, a real estate investment trust, will delay its 2012 annual report filing.

Regulators are increasingly examining institutions’ vendor risk management processes.

Fiserv Case-Shiller projects that by the end of 2013 home prices will be rising in nearly every metro area in the U.S.

The American Securitization Forum fell into turmoil last week when most of the board resigned in a dispute with the group’s executive director over governance and bonuses.

Home prices across Canada are overvalued by approximately 20% in real terms on an estimated basis.

New York State is taking action to reduce the amount of time an insurer can delay deliberation on a homeowner’s insurance claim in the areas affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The Senate Banking Committee examined the Federal Housing Administration's fiscal problems on Thursday, with lawmakers still divided on the best approach to take for reforming the troubled agency.

Ambac Financial Group earned $143.6 million in net profit for the fourth quarter of 2012, up from a net loss of $963.2 million in 4Q 2011.

After reducing legacy risks during a profitable quarter, Assured Guaranty Ltd. is making plans to start wrapping municipal deals later this year.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has launched its first housing discrimination mobile application.

MBIA Inc. had a better quarter during the last three months of 2012, reporting an adjusted pretax income of $110 million, compared with an adjusted pretax loss of $118 million during the third quarter.