Compliance & Regulation

A bipartisan duo of lawmakers is set Tuesday to introduce a bill designed to increase homeownership opportunities for “credit invisible” consumers.

Old Republic International Corp. is again making noise about bringing its mortgage insurance subsidiary back to active status, while separating it out from the holding company.

CoreLogic will fully integrate its 4506-T income verification product in August with Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter platform to provide Day 1 Certainty service.

Regardless of whether Congress could act, proponents don’t seem to fully appreciate the potential unintended consequences of a future without Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

A Muskogee, Okla., woman charged with embezzling more than $10,000 from a local church also is a federal mortgage loan originator licensed to represent a local bank, according to national registry records.

Freddie Mac has set a November implementation date for its plan to tighten restrictions on seller-funded down payments.

Efforts to repeal a Dodd-Frank mandate for lenders to report data on small-business applicants — including race and ethnicity — overlook the benefits of the provision to both communities of color and banks.

Three California men who previously operated Star Reliable Mortgage were ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution and are facing multiyear prison terms related to a foreclosure rescue scheme.

Shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac say a trove of documents they have obtained bolsters their case that the government lied when it decided to take all of the mortgage companies’ profits.