Compliance & Regulation

Industry lobbies to ensure Fannie and Freddie apartment financing platforms are preserved and transferred to the private sector.

The Mortgage Bankers Association thinks mortgage volumes will drop by a third next year. Industry execs we asked agreed originations will fall. Just how much? No agreement there.

The new proposal is designed to facilitate loan sales and best execution.

Mortgage websites often make one of the same mistakes the disastrous healthcare.gov did. So both mortgage technologists and government officials can share the derisive tag “the monkey court” for once.

Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., faces an uphill confirmation battle this week to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but it's unlikely to be the end of the war.

Consumers’ renewed interest in refinancing and a smaller rise in purchase requests give applications a boost.

Sixty-seven nonprofits will benefit from the megabank’s 2013 “Leading the Way Home” program designed to help accelerate recovery efforts in distressed areas.

Wil Armstrong applies lessons learned while working for Mother Teresa to being the chief executive of a mortgage technology firm.

The accord ends all pending litigation and the agencies won't object to the reorganization plan for the company's money-losing Residential Capital mortgage lender.

Risk management and compliance has increased from safety and soundness reviews to encompass consumer protection and operational risks since the founding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.