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Blue Sage Solutions launches digital servicing platform

Housing Wire

Blue Sage Solutions’s primary product offering is a cloud-based digital lending platform designed to operate in the retail, wholesale, and correspondent lending channels while ensuring compliance. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

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Mortgage credit availability increased in January: MBA

Housing Wire

“However, overall credit availability remained close to 2012 lows, and the conventional index was close to its record low in the series dating back to 2011,” he said. There are still other active headwinds to monitor despite the rise in these programs, however.

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to CFPB funding structure

Housing Wire

Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a broad challenge to the funding mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was brought by payday lending groups led by the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA). The CFPB maintains regulatory enforcement authority over a wide swath of U.S.

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David Stevens, former FHA Commissioner and MBA President, has died

Housing Wire

Dave and his wife Mary were instrumental in the 2011 creation of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation, which has helped more than 16,000 families with crucially ill or injured children stay in their homes while their child is in treatment.”

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After hitting a 10-year low, mortgage credit availability improves slightly in August

Housing Wire

A decline of the index, benchmarked to 100 in March 2012, indicates that lending standards are tightening while an increase suggests loosening credit. The conforming index dropped to its lowest level since 2011. The trade group’s monthly Mortgage Credit Availability Index picked up by 0.3% in August.

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Rohit Chopra shakes up leadership at CFPB

Housing Wire

The agency said that the four senior roles will be filled by a Biden campaign alum, two former Obama-era CFPB officials and a long-time Bureau official with a fair lending expertise. Zixta Martinez will serve as the CFPB’s deputy director, and will oversee the operations division.

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In acquisition mode, Planet closes a $10B MSR deal  

Housing Wire

Connecticut-based lender and servicer Planet Home Lending announced on Thursday a deal that boosts its servicing portfolio, which the company claims is already above the $90 billion mark. Planet has acquired a $10 billion mortgage servicing rights (MSR) bulk of Ginnie Mae loans from Village Capital & Investment LLC.

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