The Lede

The Chattanoogan.com, Sept. 16, 2015 The legislation would prohibit any increase in the guarantee fee--which is required to be charged by government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--from offsetting other government spending while also prohibiting the sale of Treasury-owned senior preferred shares in the GSEs without congressional approval and structural housing finance reform.

CNBC, Sept. 16, 2015--Olick, Diana Total mortgage application volume decreased 7 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week ending September 11th versus the earlier week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Scotsman Guide, Sept. 16, 2015--Whitman, Victor Housing and banking groups are gearing up for fights this fall over the use of money collected by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to insure mortgage-backed securities.

Marketplace, Sept. 16, 2015--King, Noel Fannie Mae is making changes to a mortgage product for middle- and low-income earners in order to better reflect the way many folks live now: with working parents, children or roommates who may not be the main mortgage borrower, but who pitch in money for rent, groceries and utilities.

MarketWatch, Sept. 16, 2015--Sjolin, Sara Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC agreed to pay $129.6 million to settle claims by a U.S. regulator that the British lender sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to now-defunct U.S. credit unions, according to the court filing on Tuesday.

Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2015--Zeng, Min; Albanese, Chiarra Investors may be mixed on what the Federal Reserve will do with interest rates this week. But they are more aligned on what they expect to happen next with rates: not much.

Mortgage Servicing News, Sept. 16, 2015--Peters, Andy Ocwen Financial said it expects to report a loss in its current fiscal year, as it continues to cut costs amid an investigation of its practices.

HousingWire, Sept. 16, 2015 A congressional move to limit the salaries for the CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac moved a step closer Tuesday night when the Senate unanimously passed a version of the House's Equity in Government Compensation Act of 2015.

Reuters, Sept. 16, 2015--Mutikani, Lucia U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in August as gasoline prices resumed their decline and a strong dollar curbed the cost of other goods, pointing to tame inflation that complicates the Federal Reserve's decision whether to hike interest rates.

Wall Street Journal, Sept. 16, 2015--Simon, Ruth Intuit, PayPal and Square already know how much money millions of small businesses are bringing in each day. Now these tech firms are stepping up efforts to mine that data to get into the lending business.

GlobeSt.com, Sept. 17, 2015--Morphy, Erika There has been an uptick in companies spinning off real estate to monetize their (often struggling) operations. Some of these deals have the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.