Compliance & Regulation

One of the most difficult conversions for lenders to accomplish is turning a past customer into a future customer.

The head of a California mortgage lender who perpetrated a $5.3 million mortgage fraud scheme against Ally Financial will serve more than four years in prison.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined RealtySouth, Alabama’s largest real estate firm, $500,000 for allegedly steering consumers to an affiliated title services company.

Much has been made of how Basel III requirements have dulled banks' appetite for mortgage servicing rights, but a handful of institutions are buying within regulatory limits.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week quietly issued over $70 million in fines to entities which have been through private settlements without specifying why. Here are some likely causes.

The congressional stalemate over how to restructure the housing finance system leaves several questions unanswered about other bank regulations currently in the pipeline.

Democratic allies are hoping that, once confirmed, Julian Castro will focus on increasing affordable housing and making mortgage credit more available to first-time homebuyers.

ReverseVision has launched an online education platform aimed at teaching lending professionals about reverse mortgages.

Valuation Partners, an appraisal management company in Sugar Land, Texas, said on Thursday that it has launched a unit to handle valuations of commercial properties.

Mortgage originators do not meet two of the eight required tests to qualify for tax purposes as statutory employees.