As servicers downsize their loss mitigation units, housing counselors are finding the companies' designated points of contact are less experienced, making it more difficult to get packages approved for troubled borrowers.

Creating a bipartisan commission to manage the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will make the agency’s rules longer-lasting and place needed checks on the director’s authority.

Independent mortgage banks saw production profits slip during the fourth quarter, a result in part of the implementation of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Advanced technology can certainly provide process improvements, but those will reap results only if employed alongside industry fundamentals.

W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital shut its doors after it was stuck with nonagency loans with TILA/RESPA integrated disclosure issues that it couldn't sell.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's proposed addition to the Housing Choice Voucher Program represents a significant deviation from its stated mission of promoting homeownership.

The Federal Housing Administration revised its proposed lender certification requirements on Tuesday in an effort to provide more clarity and reassure lenders they won't be penalized for minor loan defects or mistakes.

Three-fourths of House lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter that calls on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to take more steps to carve out community banks and credit unions from onerous regulations. But will it make a difference?

Ginnie Mae needs more and better paid staff to keep up with growing risks on nonbank seller/servicers, the watchdog agency head said.

To hear some former examiners tell it, companies that are hostile during the exam process may get dinged more often than those that show respect and professionalism. Following are tips to ensure bankers do better on their next exam.

Compliance experts have long disagreed about how much, if any, discretion loan officers have in pricing loans to consumers. But a recent auto lending case should bring that debate to a close.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gave $186 million to the National Housing Trust Fund, their first such contributions to a fund designed to provide construction and rehabilitation of rental housing for low-income families.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is exploring ways to use $40 million it received as part of a private-label securities settlement to support small business development and job creation to help future homebuyers.

QRM clarified the rules of the road for securitizations. Now, participants in the MBS world seeking better margins are looking beyond the safe harbor — to the subprime space.

PHH, which lost $145 million in 2015, has hired Credit Suisse and JPMorgan to help it review all of its options, including capital allocation, to maximize shareholder value.

Lenders can mitigate fair lending violations through employing technology and tools that shed light specifically on their blind spots, one major area of focus recently solidified by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Changes to mortgage disclosure rules implemented in October continue to frustrate community bankers and is just another example of the struggle to stay independent.

The collateral for Agate Bay 2016-2 includes some residential mortgages that failed to comply, at least initially, with "Know Before You Owe" disclosure rules that took effect in October.

Citigroup executives involved in the issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities at the center of the 2008 financial crisis will not be facing criminal charges for selling toxic bonds, U.S. authorities have determined.

A federal judge has allowed to proceed a lawsuit in which a Belgian investor blames Bank of New York Mellon for about $1.1 billion of losses related to its role as trustee for residential mortgage securities.