Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans once served a broad spectrum of borrowers until the subprime mortgage meltdown came along and pushed lenders to tighten underwriting standards and credit score requirements.

Dallas-based Highland Capital Management, which along with its affiliates has roughly $23 billion in assets under management, hired Brian Rice as managing director.

Ogier is planning to open a boutique law firm in Luxembourg as part of its goal to continue to expand its global network.

Although CMBS delinquency rates have not seen the double-digit rates many industry analysts predicted would have happened by now, maturing 2007 vintage deals can change that picture.

Freddie Mac is making it easier for investors to track the performance and credit quality of its multifamily MBS known as 'K Certificates.'

Venable has hired a capital markets attorney with a background in derivatives transactions and regulations.

RBC Capital Markets has named Marc Fleischman to the position of head of hedge fund relationship management within the firm's Global Trading Client Management (GTCM) group.

The rising number of MBS lawsuits drove the mortgage litigation index to its highest level since it was first issued in 2007.

Despite the general market volatility, the timeshare industry has benefited from the steps taken to further increase efficiencies, DBRS analysts said late yesterday in a comment.

In his eight years on the Senate Banking Committee, Rick Santorum was an infrequent presence at committee hearings, even though his office was located on the same floor of the Dirksen office building as the committee's hearing room.

Federal regulators must levy fines against residential servicers under their purview to show there are real consequences for their "severe misconduct," according to Federal Reserve governor Sarah Bloom Raskin.

When foreclosure and short sales are excluded from the CoreLogic home price index, it shows that values declined just 0.6% over the 12 months ending Nov. 30.