Financial institutions

While evolving market conditions have made retaining servicing rights more attractive to independent mortgage bankers, making the right choice between an in-house operation or engaging with a subservicer is critical to the new business line's success.

Despite the mounting charge from burgeoning nonbank servicers, three large banks still control the majority of the servicing market.

There's little point to Fannie and Freddie's large profits if that money is remitted to the Treasury rather than making the GSEs more financially stable.

Officials at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae all heaped praise on nonbank mortgage lenders for stepping up to provide loans for home purchases at a time when many banks have scaled back.

PennyMac formed the new division to provide multifamily and other commercial loans under $10 million.

The days of megadeals worth tens of billions of dollars for mortgage servicing rights are over.

Increased fixed costs and poor business intelligence are hurting independent mortgage bankers' bottom lines.

The State Regulatory Registry, which runs the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System, says that mortgage loan originator and company renewals for 2015 are off to a strong start.

Profits from originating mortgages dipped during the third quarter, with independent mortgage banks and mortgage subsidiaries of banks reporting an average gain of $897, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Part two of this three-part series covers what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to see from originators if they close loans in their own name.

MountainView Servicing Group will serve as an advisor in the sale of a $1.2 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage servicing rights portfolio.

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The company will launch a nationwide branding campaign in the first quarter of next year.

Low demand coupled with low interest rates and a focus on simplicity and transparency led to the change.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau slapped Franklin Loan Corp. with a $730,000 fine on Thursday for allegedly incentivizing loan officers to guide customers into mortgages with higher interest rates.

New York financial regulator Benjamin Lawsky held up the deal shortly after it was announced in January, and regulatory and legal concerns had mounted since then.

For the fifth year in a row, Quicken Loans is rated No. 1 by consumers in terms of customer satisfaction, according to a J.D. Power survey.

Nonbank mortgage lender loanDepot has reached an agreement to acquire Mortgage Master.

Hiring in the mortgage sector increased for the fifth straight month in September.

Impac Mortgage Holdings lost $1.2 million this past quarter as total revenue declined by $4.6 million from the same period in 2013.