There’s been speculation that the Treasury Department this year would suspend the dividend payment to let the two companies build capital, a first step in an administration-backed recapitalization and release plan.

You can bet that President Trump will tweet something out about the FOMC decision shortly after it happens…

Complaints tied to residential servicing practices continued to dominate the filings...

Stearns Lending founder Glenn Stearns will star in a reality TV series called “Undercover Billionaire,” premiering August 6. Stearns will be dropped off in a U.S. city (Erie, PA) with $100 in his pocket. The goal: to create a million-dollar enterprise from scratch in 90 days…

Approximately $600 million of refinance loans with a VA guarantee were left stranded on lenders’ balance sheets due to a conflict in Ginnie seasoning requirements that were ushered in with passage of the Dodd-Frank reform act...

According to calculations made by Inside Mortgage Finance, the patch currently accounts for as much as 30% of single-family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 

MBA worries that if the GSE patch expires without any corresponding reforms to "preserve access to credit," the residential mortgage market will be disrupted...

To ensure lenders are not adversely impacted by the outage, FHA will make adjustments to response due dates.

Harvard's Don Layton on creating more competition for Fannie and Freddie: “I have not encountered any knowledgeable people who think it could happen quickly."

Across the board, lenders are reporting stellar origination growth from the first to second quarters of the year, but the last two application surveys from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed weekly declines of 1.9% and 1.1%, respectively…