Compliance & Regulation

The various bank and wire fraud charges in a federal indictment include conspiracy to defraud Quicken Loans (now Rocket Mortgage) for $1.3 million.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement.

The filing by Tamara Richards also accused the founder and other execs of encouraging a "frat house" environment that mistreated women.

The company will return to selling pieces of its credit exposure to private investors during the last three months of the year, but is still evaluating its strategy for 2022.

Also: Sen. Warren and Wells Fargo spar, FHFA suspends Trump-era GSE restrictions and more.

Changes proposed this week stand to reverse the effect of the Trump-era rule, which disincentivized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from making such deals, according to critics.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is looking to revise the framework intended for when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exit conservatorship in order to encourage the transfer of credit risk to private investors.

Changes made in the waning days of the previous administration limited the government-sponsored enterprises’ purchases of certain loan types, which drew criticism from lenders and community groups alike.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency made good on a promise to rescind Community Reinvestment Act reforms finalized by ex-Comptroller Joseph Otting as part of talks with other regulators on an interagency overhaul of the law.

Some progressive lawmakers argue the Federal Reserve’s deregulatory moves under Jerome Powell should disqualify him for a second term as chair. But the Biden administration could let him keep his job because of monetary policies that helped low-income workers.