Wholesale lenders

After a "landmark" first-quarter driven by mortgage origination gains, Flagstar Bancorp is counting on mortgage servicing and community banking to spur future growth.

Citadel Servicing Corp., a California-based nonbank wholesale mortgage lender and servicer, has rolled out a subprime second trust deed loan program.

Wholesale lenders and their brokers are finding preparing for the new mortgage disclosures that take effect in August especially tricky.

Regulators recently penalized a mortgage firm for keeping a file of licensing-test questions to prep exam takers, the first public challenge to what is believed to be a hushed, but longtime, industry practice.

Mortgage brokers lead all other lenders when it comes to being real estate agents' preferred partners, according to the results of a survey from real estate information firm Inman.

Loans4Less.com in Redondo Beach, Calif., has agreed to buy consumer lending and peer-to-peer technology platform 321Lend.

The mortgage and title industries are creating training programs to teach those in the home sales process this is not just a swapping out of two forms for new ones.

The chance to earn higher compensation and the ability to offer more mortgage products is causing a growing number of loan officers to go out on their own.

The recent delay of new HECM rules is a reprieve for lenders scrambling to implement training and systems updates ahead of the original deadline. But it's also prompted questions about a key technology used by the reverse mortgage industry.

Mortgage banking and servicing company 1st Alliance Lending is introducing a new national mortgage lending platform

Having the extra time for implementation has been helpful because mortgage companies were experiencing difficulties meeting the first deadline for the change in procedure, which affects government-insured reverse mortgages.

Walter Investment Management Corp. revealed in both its fourth-quarter earnings release and a separate annual report filing with the SEC a potential settlement regarding a FTC and CFPB investigation into its Green Tree subsidiary’s servicing practices.

San Francisco-based Sindeo is trying to bring the mortgage brokerage business into the future, creating a new online service that focuses on helping consumers navigate the often confusing mortgage process from start to finish.

Nonbank mortgage lenders added 3,800 new workers to their payrolls in November amid new proposals to offer low down payment conventional loans being announced.

The Online Originator Award acknowledges a lender that has demonstrated a commitment to using Web-based technologies to generate borrower leads and convert them into closed loans. Learn about this year's finalists and see who won the 2014 MT Award.

The new estimate shows a 15% increase in purchase mortgage originations, compared to a drop in 2014.

The third and final part of this series tells how to establish a business model acceptable to the CFPB.

Hiring by nonbank mortgage lenders slowed in October after adding 2,900 new workers to their payrolls in the prior month.

FDIC third quarter report shows pop in loan buybacks and indemnifications.

Part two of this three-part series covers what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to see from originators if they close loans in their own name.