Originations

H&R Block may abandon its status as a savings and loan holding company as a result of impending new capital rules.

Mortgage applications fell in the latest weekly reading with refinancings continuing to dominate the consumer landscape.

United Community Financial in Youngstown, Ohio, has reduced its classified assets nearly in half through a bulk sale.

The Justice Department's FHA-related lawsuit against Wells Fargo could cost the bank $750 million, pretax.

Liz Greenwood, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling 2012 Outstanding Counselor of the Year says it is an honor to help.

An efficient payments process management is key for lenders and servicers who are constantly looking for better and improved ways to deal with mortgage loan data processing.

The U.S. charged 530 people with targeting homeowners in mortgage schemes that cost the victims more than $1 billion, Attorney General Eric Holder said today.

I’m not going to give out the names of the lenders, vendors and servicers that have won our annual Mortgage Technology Awards after all.

If Joseph Campanelli's job at Flagstar Bancorp was to keep the company alive, Michael Tierney's task is to make it thrive.

Residential shadow inventory continued to shrink in July compared to a year ago, CoreLogic said in its latest data report.

The latest entrant to the (now) lucrative warehouse business is a company called Fortis Capital, which is pitching its services to residential loan brokerage firms that are seeking to transition to mortgage bankers.

Former Kondaur CEO Jon Daurio is out in the market trying to raise money for a new nonconforming lender.

Citywide Mortgage is opening a regional sales center in Orange County, Calif., and seeks residential loan officers and others.

The syndication of warehouse lines of credit may be staging a mini-revival.

Federal Reserve governors continue to view the housing recovery as weak despite its multiyear efforts, citing—among other concerns—tight mortgage underwriting standards.

Many mortgage bankers aren't waiting around for regulators to define what a qualified mortgage is and instead are writing their own rules, including strict about debt-to-income ratios.

Because the stakes are so high for a medium that’s still very much in its infancy, Ellie Mae is taking a slow-and-steady strategy that it hopes will ensure its mobile technology meets the needs of its diverse user base.

Ellie Mae has developed a new document preparation technology designed to be more streamlined and integrated than its current doc prep engine.

The mortgage settlement/closing process in Australia is antiquated, lengthy and at times just simply frustrating.

Electronic document management is great, but it's far from new. Technology vendors have been providing these technologies for close to two decades, but their need has never been more important.