The Lede

HousingWire, Apr. 8, 2016--Messerli, Kristin The Mortgage Bankers Association held its annual technology conference in Los Angeles, in which experts in mortgage technology gathered to discuss compliance, purchasing trends, and consumer experience. One panel focused on the trends in mobile usage and the necessity for lenders to adopt mobile technology.

Wall Street Journal, Apr. 8, 2016--Huang, Daniel; Gellman, Lindsay Entry-level bankers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gathered in a lower Manhattan hotel ballroom last April to listen to the firm's top executives try to fire them up about their budding careers.

National Mortgage News, Apr. 8, 2016--Collins, Brian Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's experiments with selling credit risk to investors are a critical element of new plan to merge the two entities and move them out of conservatorship, but what form so-called credit risk transfers take could make a big difference.

HousingWire, Apr. 8, 2016--Lane, Ben Count Tim Rood, chairman of The Collingwood Group, among those who think the regulatory environment is smothering mortgage lenders.

Bloomberg, Apr. 8, 2016--Clark, Patrick Cities could save millions of dollars in tax revenue by helping renters fight landlords. Or so a group of attorneys says.

Reuters, Apr. 8, 2016--Lange, Jason Wholesale inventories dropped 0.5 percent in February, the Commerce Department said on Friday, the sharpest decline since May 2013. Analysts polled by Reuters expected a 0.1 percent decline.

Reuters, Apr. 8, 2016--Spicer, Jonathan The Federal Reserve must approach further rate hikes cautiously and gradually because of lingering external risks to the U.S. economy, despite some strength at home and welcome hints of inflation, New York Fed President William Dudley said Friday.

National Mortgage Professional, Apr. 8, 2016--Hall, Phil At a hearing  before the Senate Banking Committee, Mortgage Bankers Association Senior Vice President of Legislative and Political Affairs Bill Killmer urged the CFPB to provide clear "rules of the road" whenever it plans to create new rules or to update both existing guidelines and the interpretations of longstanding policies.

Reuters, Apr. 9, 2016--Stempel, Jonathan Wells Fargo & Co admitted to deceiving the U.S. government into insuring thousands of risky mortgages, as it formally reached a record $1.2 billion settlement of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit.

Wall Street Journal, Apr. 10, 2016--Rudegeair, Peter; Demos, Telis More online lenders are tapping the brakes on consumer marketing operations, a sign that diminished investor interest for some loans could hurt future revenue growth.

Wall Street Journal, Apr. 8, 2016--Kirkham, Chris The group of Americans known as Generation X has suffered more than any other age cohort from the housing bust, according to an analysis of federal data, suggesting homeownership rates for that group could remain depressed for years to come.

HousingWire, Apr. 8, 2016--Lane, Ben In a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman joins the chorus calling for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce the mortgage balances of struggling borrowers.

The Mortgage Bankers Association's Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Conference takes place May 1-4 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Convention Center.

MBA Education presents a Webinar, Benchmarking Yourself As a Mortgage Lender Webinar, on Thursday, May 12 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. ET.