Virginia Beach-based LenderSecure has increased its total of best-in-class solutions providers to nine with the recent addition of four new partners.

Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio declined for the 51st time in the last 52 months in October, according to the mortgage giant's October 2014 Monthly Summary released recently.

Sixteen individuals have been charged in relation to a telemarketing scheme to sell houses to investors in most of the U.S., including Michigan, according to a joint announcement by U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara McQuade and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office Paul Abbate.

The U.S. Department of Treasury announced that Annie Donovan has joined the department as the new director of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.

A Delaware man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for his role in a fraud and money laundering scheme involving a bank that was a recipient of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), according to an announcement by the Special Inspector General for the TARP (SIGTARP) and U.S. Attorney General for Delaware Charles M. Oberly III.

Irvine, California-based residential loan servicer Rushmore Loan Management Services opened a branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico, earlier this month.

Atlanta-based bankruptcy attorney Jason Watson, partner at Alston & Bird and chair of the firm's Bankruptcy, Workouts, & Reorganization Group, was recently chosen as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Ohio-based national mortgage field services provider A2Z Field Services has announced the release of a weather and disaster notification system known as A2Z Weather Compass.

RynohLive, a Virginia Beach-based patented financial management and fraud prevention system for title agents, as recently named an Elite Provider by the American Land Title Association (ALTA).

Default Servicing Technologies (DST), an Illinois-based provider of web-based automated tools for asset managers and mortgage servicers to manage REO properties, has announced the hiring of Doring Lloyd as the firm's VP of business development.