With the recent issuance of streamlined regulations on lender indemnification, mortgagees participating in the FHA Lender Insurance program may increasingly find themselves the targets of HUD enforcement actions. Industry compliance experts anticipate an increase in agency audits and monitoring reviews because of the Department of Housing and Urban Developments tightening of its indemnification rules. This could raise lenders compliance costs as well as legal costs if they find themselves the subject of an enforcement action, experts warned. At an unprecedented time of change in the mortgage industry ...