The full Senate could vote on the Ben Carson nomination next week...

The assessment matches the rating service’s “grade” on Caliber Home Loans, which issued the first AAA-rated nonprime MBS backed by new originations.

Among four depositories that publicly disclose their jumbo originations, First Republic Bank and Flagstar Bancorp posted increases…

In July, publicly traded REIT Two Harbors Investment Corp. announced it was discontinuing its mortgage conduit and securitization operations.

What? Democrats won't help in changing the Dodd-Frank Act?

SFIG noted that a complete repeal of risk-retention requirements “is likely neither appropriate nor probable.”

The new MBS is largely backed by non-QMs, along with some “rebuttable presumption” QMs…

The "Lost Sales Analysis" product – licensed from its developer, Equifax – helps originators determine if applicants closed a mortgage with a competitor.

All of the loans are current, though Fitch noted that 20.4 percent are “dirty current,” having experienced recent delinquencies or incomplete pay-strings…

"The legal challenges [to firing Cordray] must be very legitimate or they would have tossed him by now," said one industry official...