With the federal deficit set to increase, there are fears that the 10-year Treasury rate will rise.

Will the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cause federal deficits to grow and rates to spike? The simple answer seems to be yes, but so far the yield on the 10-year note hasn’t moved much.

In some regards, 2024 was a better, but trying, year for mortgage bankers. A handful of publicly traded shops gave nice pay raises to those in the C-suites. (Includes data table.)

There was little fluctuation in MSR values on a quarterly basis as of the end of June, according to an early look at MSR marks.

Loan brokerage firms had 83,600 workers on their payrolls as May closed out, off 100 from April 30.

Title Resource Group is the nation’s fifth-largest title shop. First American ranks second.

Stifel said it’s questionable whether enough Republicans will vote against the bill.

Piper: "The primary-secondary spread has averaged 1.06% in 2Q25, below the 1Q25 average of 1.12%."

Onity is working on another securitization of reverse mortgages.

Bob Caruso is in charge of the servicing brokerage platform.