Compliance & Regulation

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said more interest-rate increases will be appropriate if the economy meets the central bank's outlook of gradually rising inflation and tightening labor markets.

Mortgage lenders afraid to enter into any kind of marketing services agreement should look not to what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has laid as guidance, but what it has left unsaid.

Invictus Capital Partners, a nonprime mortgage lender based in Washington, D.C., is making its debut in the securitization market.

Stringent regulations put in place after the recession have been unevenly enforced across the industry, to the detriment of small financial institutions. Here's hoping that changes with the new administration.

A former executive at Tennessee Commerce Bank executive has been charged with providing false information to one of the bank's regulators.

Thomas Pahl has been appointed acting director of the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection bureau, the agency said Wednesday.

Some experts say President Trump is being advised to hold off on firing CFPB's Richard Cordray to get the Supreme Court to rule on the extent of the president's executive powers.

Joseph Ficalora, New York Community's CEO, told analysts that his company could still have a chance to buy Astoria "down the road."

A number of banks are tapping the brakes on commercial real estate lending, giving others an opportunity to make more loans at better terms.

The Trump administration was set to release an executive order Friday calling for a review of the Dodd-Frank Act, but the immediate questions about the order focused on what authority the White House has to enact real change.