Originations

The Eleventh Federal Home Loan District Cost of Funds Index gained 0.3 basis points in April.

A federal jury in the Eastern District of California returned guilty verdicts today against two defendants who led a national foreclosure rescue scam.

Loan acquisitions rose 8% from March to $77.3 billion in April and commitments to purchase new loans rose 4% in April to $87.5 billion.

PulteGroup plans to relocate its corporate offices in suburban Detroit to Atlanta in 2014.

A Mortgage Grapevine poster who had been a loan officer has become a licensed notary.

REMN looks to meet the specific needs those institutions have when selling loans on a flow basis.

All but one Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stock closed lower on Friday as the market once again worried about the end of the stimulus might be coming soon.

Bankers advising the Federal Reserve this month said they expect the central bank’s record accommodation to last as long as three years, while warning that an interest-rate increase could slow the housing recovery.

Old Republic Title and the regional underwriters as a group continued to grab market share away from the other three national underwriters.

Citibank has opened its first smart banking technology flagship branch on the West Coast in the Westwood section of Los Angeles.

April was the best month of 2013 so far and the best month since last October in terms of new insurance written for the members of the Mortgage Insurance Cos. of America.

Creditor payments to brokers will count toward the cap in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s qualified mortgage definition.

EverBank has a second jumbo securitization in the works backed by $303 million in 15- and 30-year loans.

Each state has a single source to go to where it can look to check the list of nonfilers and send out form letters that can cause your license to be suspended.

The Mortgage Industry Equity Composite had 13 gainers, three decliners and one stock unchanged on Thursday.

PacTrust Bank, which has been expanding its mortgage business in recent weeks to include warehouse lending and correspondent aggregation channels, has been approved to be a Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities issuer.

Bank of America Corp. must face a lawsuit filed by a mortgage-bond trustee that seeks the repurchase of home loans backing $1.75 billion of securities, a judge ruled.