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According to the CFPB's announcement, consumers with limited credit histories can be placed in two groups – "credit invisible," which means the consumer has no credit report, or "unscored," which means the consumer has some credit history but not enough to generate a credit score, or else the information is "stale" and out of date.

The bill, which Whitehouse introduced into the Senate on Thursday, April 30, would permanently extend foreclosure relief to servicemenbers provided by the Foreclosure Relief and Extension for Servicemembers Act of 2014, introduced by Whitehouse last May and signed into law by President Obama in December after unanimously passing in both the House and the Senate.

Nationstar Mortgage Holdings reported a net loss of $48 million, or $0.53 per share, for the first quarter of 2015 compared with a net income of $19 million ($0.21 per share) for the previous quarter, according to an announcement from the Lewisville, Texas-based residential mortgage servicer on Tuesday morning.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) brought about by Costa Mesa, California-based support services company Morgan Drexen Integrated Systems.

Freddie Mac reported a net income of $227 million for the fourth quarter of 2014, a decline of $1.9 billion from the third quarter. The GSE attributed the drop in net income to derivative losses, which totaled $3.4 billion for the quarter driven by declining interest rates.

The data showed that modification, collection, and foreclosure-related complaints were falling at an even fast rate than the number of non-current loans over that same period. In Q1 2013, the number of such complaints were received by the Bureau totaled 10,047; for the fourth quarter of 2014, that number was 4,741, a decline of 53 percent–compared to the 27 percent decline for non-current loan inventory.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has issued a memo announcing the rescinding of a mortgagee letter written in January that would have allowed reverse mortgage lenders the option of delaying foreclosure proceedings on surviving non-borrowing spouses.

Compliance by states that do have an AMC regulatory body begins one year from the day the new regulations go live, which would put the deadline at the beginning of Q3 2016, according to FHFA. Compliance means adopting minimum registration and supervisory protocols for AMCs, including those that are subsidiaries of federally insured depository institutions.

Fannie Mae's gross mortgage portfolio has now expanded in two of the last three months following an increase at a compound annualized rate of 7.8 percent in March, according to Fannie Mae's March 2015 Monthly Volume Summary released Thursday.

"I am proud of what we have accomplished as far as managing the business through this difficult transition period. We made great progress on our asset sale strategy, have returned to profitability and continue to generate substantial operating cash flow," said Ron Faris, President and CEO of Ocwen. "However, I am not satisfied with only making $34 million in the quarter. We intend to do better."