Last month, Citigroup announced plans to exit the mortgage servicing business and sell off a $97 billion portfolio to a non-bank servicer and transfer their remaining mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) to another non-bank servicer by early 2018. Thus continues the trend of non-bank mortgage servicers capturing more market share year after year than their bank competition. Last year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report which emphasized the fact that the share of mortgages serviced by non-banks increased from 6.8 percent in 2012 to 24.2 percent in 2015. Continue reading Expect a Change to Regulation of Non-Bank Mortgage Servicers →

As the mortgage regulation alphabet continues, with lenders implementing HMDA, TRID, QM and more, the industry cited regulation as having a negative impact on business production and consumer credit availability, according to the American Bankers Association’s 24th annual Real Estate Lending Survey. Continue reading How Do You Compare ? QM Lending Statistics →

On Tuesday, Chris D’Angelo, the associate director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) division of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending, said at an American Bankers Association meeting in Washington that the CFPB is bureau was set to undertake a review of a host of major rules that it has put in place, including the qualified mortgage rule.

D’Angelo stated that the CFPB is “embarking” on the process of reviewing rules that it has put in place as mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act. Continue reading CFPB to Re-Examine Regulations →