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• NMLS is Being Outfitted for Non-Mortgage Industries
  The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and its affiliate – the State Regulatory Registry LLC (SRR) – have announced plans to enhance the use of the NMLS to accommodate state use of the System for non-mortgage, non-depository financial services industries. This will give states the ability to use NMLS to license or register entities […]
• Featured Speakers at NMLS Conference
  The fourth NMLS Annual Conference & Training is bringing together over 99 state regulators from 50 state agencies as well as federal regulators from the CFPB, FDIC, and NCUA. Featured Speakers: CFPB and the Supervision of the Mortgage Industry for Depositories and Non-depositories Peggy Twohig Assistant Director for Non-depository Supervision, Consumer F […]
• 2012 Renewal
  The 2012 NMLS Streamlined Renewal Process is underway. This year, over 16,000 companies and 115,000 state-licensed mortgage loan originators, holding licenses from one or more of the 58 state agencies using NMLS, are eligible to renew their licenses for 2012. Additionally, over 10,000 institutions and about 250,000 federally registered mortgage loan originat […]
• NMLS Annual Conference
  The fourth NMLS Annual Conference & Training will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 6-9, 2012. With over 400 attendees last year, the NMLS Annual Conference has become a must attend event for banks and nonbank companies that employ mortgage loan originators and are interested in state and federal mortgage supervision. The 2012 Conference […]
• Continuing Education for 2011 (STATE)
  The SAFE Act requires state-licensed MLOs to complete 8 hours of annual continuing education. Some states have additional requirements (see the State-Specific Education Requirements Chart). So far in 2011, MLOs have completed 270,471 hours of continuing education (CE). Roughly 40% of the estimated 85,000 MLOs who are required to complete CE are now compliant […]

Mortgage Daily News Feed

• GSE Execs Rack Up Tens of Millions in Legal Expenses
  An inspector general report examined legal fees being paid on behalf of former senior executives of the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. One way that the two government-controlled enterprises can cut back on legal expenses is to stay all litigation until they are out of conservatorship since neither will ever be […]
• HUD Clarifies HAMP Credits Toward Settlement
  While some principal reduction on mortgages with government loan modifications can be credited towards the recent mortgage servicer settlement, the vast majority of loans modified under the federal program won't be eligible.The Department of Housing and Urban Development says that incentives paid to servicers under the Home Affordable Modification Progr […]
• Mortgage Bankers Raise Origination Outlook
  Home lenders cut their outlook for the volume of home purchases expected to be financed this year. But an increase in projected refinance production was enough to push the overall outlook higher.The latest mortgage production forecast has first-quarter residential originations 6 percent higher than was predicted last month.Even expected second-quarter financ […]
• Apartment Loan Performance Leads CMBS Improvement
  Led by improving multifamily performance, past-due payments on securitized commercial mortgages retreated -- though so did the overall amount outstanding.Delinquency of at least 60 days on loans that are part of conduit-fusion commercial mortgage-backed securities was 2 basis points better during January than in December.But late payments on securitized comm […]
• What's Next for Fannie and Freddie?
  The next phase in conservatorship for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been laid out for legislators.The Federal Housing Finance Agency was established through The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in July 2008.By the time that the financial crisis reached a fever pitch in September 2008 and capita […]