Mortgages

Thirty-year conventional mortgage-backed securities prepayment speeds came in 3% faster in the latest month, including a surprising 6% increase in certain Fannie Mae Home Affordable Refinance Program coupons and vintages.

Interactive Mortgage Advisors is exclusively brokering on behalf of an unnamed bank another bulk residential mortgage servicing rights offering in conjunction with which the seller would like to establish a flow relationship.

Mortgage companies added 3,000 full-time employees to their payrolls in April following 2,500 new hires in the prior month.

Fidelity National Financial’s proposed acquisition of Lender Processing Services will create a larger, more diversified revenue base, said A.M. Best.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued amendments to the final rule on mandatory escrow accounts.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has priced $1 billion in fixed-rate asset-backed term notes whose proceeds will be used to finance certain servicing assets.

Richard Dorfman, the head of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s securitization group, is leaving the organization.

The Federal Housing Administration is streamlining its short-sale program and its plans to introduce the changes before the end of June.

Buyers are looking for new homes more urgently as rates continue to rise.

Bank of America Corp.’s $8.5 billion mortgage-bond settlement is “outstanding” for investors, said a Pacific Investment Management Co. executive.

The implications of a potential Oregon Supreme Court ruling in two cases involving MERS was the topic of discussion on the Mortgage Grapevine in the hours before it was issued.

All 17 Mortgage Industry Equity Composite stocks closed higher on Thursday as the Dow went back over the 15,000 level.

We're hearing about foreclosure-related court decisions that coincidentally point out it may depend on where you live as to the legal outcome you may end up with.

A pair of decisions from the Oregon Supreme Court will allow mortgage lenders to proceed with nonjudicial foreclosures in that state on loans that were placed into the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems.

Mortgage Technology is pleased to announce the entry period and categories for the 14th Annual Mortgage Technology Awards. The 2013 nomination form is available one and the deadline for all nominations is 6 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 18.

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has assigned preliminary ratings to a $1.34 billion CMBS conduit sponsored by JPMorgan and Barclays.

A former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official is launching a mortgage company next year to originate non-qualified mortgages.

A MortgageMarvel.com analysis of 650,000 mortgage applications filed with 1,100 U.S. lending institutions across the country in 2012 shows buyers are taking advantage of technology to apply for mortgages at all times.

As real estate prices climb in the majority of markets throughout the country, investors are currently becoming more reluctant to purchase the same amount of inventory compared to last summer.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not make an objection in the Arizona receivership court to the sale of CMG Mortgage Insurance to Arch Capital.