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With July’s decline, the cash sales share has fallen year-over-year every month since January 2013, a total of 31 consecutive months, according to CoreLogic. July 2015’s reported share of 30.8 percent was a dropoff from the share of 34.2 percent reported in July 2014. As has historically been the case, REO sales made up 56 percent of cash sales in July 2015, and resales had the second highest share at 30.2 percent.

Wells Fargo told DS News that the reason behind the massive amount of job cuts was "the result of continuing market changes, including improvements in delinquency and foreclosure rates and reduced demand for mortgage financing."

Layton said Freddie Mac had moved on from the “early-years conservatorship mindset,” which saw the Enterprise being hesitant to take action while it waited for instructions from the government. Now, Layton said, “[w]e’re firmly facing the future, not the past.”

About 75 percent of the group surveyed said the current regulatory environment is indeed preventing them from lending to consumers who can afford and deserve a mortgage, while 25 percent said today’s regulatory environment does not prevent such lending. One anonymous respondent said, “We punish the whole for the actions of a few.”

Ocwen Financial Corporation failed four metrics and was deemed to have failed seven others in an independent settlement monitor’s review of the servicer’s entire residential mortgage loan portfolio covering the second half of 2014, according to the monitor’s report filed with the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday.

“It’s important for all people to understand the effect of life milestones on their credit so they can put themselves in a position to reach personal and financial goals," said Ken Chaplin, SVP at TransUnion. "This survey reveals that many people, especially younger adults, may not be prepared for how certain events, such as marriage, buying a home or getting a car could alter their credit scores.”

Fannie Mae announced on Wednesday the pricing of the latest risk-sharing transaction under the Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) Series at $1.45 billion. The latest transaction is Fannie Mae’s ninth under the CAS Series and first CAS transaction structured for an actual loss framework.

The increase in net income during Q3 made it a positive quarter for the bank despite a lawsuit filed by the FDIC in August accusing the bank of breaching its duties as a bond trustee for $2 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities and despite having their own lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase over toxic RMBS dismissed.

NCUA sued Wachovia, which was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008, in 2011. The Association filed suit against Barclays, the U.S. subsidiary of the British financial services firm, in 2012. Once the settlements are completed, NCUA will dismiss pending suits against both firms in federal district courts in California, New York and Kansas. As part of the settlement, neither Wachovia nor Barclays do not admit any fault.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has advanced three specific legislative proposals aimed at eliminating regulatory burden on community banks and financial institutions, according to an address from Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry at the Interagency Outreach Meeting on The Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act (EGRPA) in Chicago this week.