Underwriting

Ellie Mae had second-quarter net income of $10.6 million as its revenue per Encompass user rose by 14%.

Old Republic International Corp.'s title insurance business had a 6% decline in pretax operating income year-over-year for the second quarter as costs rose greater than premium and fee revenue.

Radian Group nearly doubled its net income during the second quarter from a year ago on a significant drop in expenses stemming from a smaller loss on debt extinguishment.

Arch Capital had underwriting income of $37.8 million in its mortgage insurance segment, which includes its U.S. subsidiary and an international reinsurance business.

Mortgage rates increased slightly this week, but remain near historic lows, according to Freddie Mac.

President Obama called for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be eliminated, but Democratic policymakers attending the convention here appear resigned to the fact that Congress is unable to act on housing finance reform.

Fannie Mae is making its housing counseling requirements more flexible so additional borrowers can qualify for its low down payment, affordable loan program called HomeReady.

Mortgage rates ticked up slightly across the board as the bond market settled from its post-Brexit volatility, but they remained near their historic lows, according to Freddie Mac.

FNF Group, the title insurance business of Fidelity National Financial Inc., had net earnings of $187 million for the second quarter, up from $160 million last year.

Purchase originations reached their highest share of the total number of loans closed in almost two years, according to Ellie Mae.

There were patterns of racial disparities in mortgage originations in the St. Louis, Milwaukee and Minneapolis metropolitan statistical areas, according to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

The value of owning a home has never been greater, at least according to one figure buried in a monthly Commerce Department report.

The promise of digital verification, beyond process improvements and time savings for lenders, is the ability to help both consumer and lender drive to the right outcome more quickly, with greater transparency and predictability along the way.

When Congress lifted the conforming loan limit in certain high-cost housing markets, it provided some much-needed liquidity for homebuyers.

Rates for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage held steady this week, remaining near their all-time record low, according to Freddie Mac.

LoanScoreCard has rolled out a new nonagency pricing and decisioning technology for the wholesale and correspondent channels.

While many depositories do just enough mortgage lending to low- to moderate-income borrowers to meet statutory requirements, The Federal Savings Bank has made it a backbone for growth.

Citigroup's next commercial mortgage securitization has heavy exposure to split loans that serve as collateral for a number of other transactions.

The management team at Bank of the Ozarks knows it has a dependency on commercial real estate. But they assert that sound underwriting, and efforts to diversify, are what really matters when assessing risk.

Mortgage rates dropped this week to their lowest point this year as yields on the 10-year Treasury remain depressed in the wake of the Brexit vote.