Compliance & Regulation

Members of the Senate Banking Committee quickly took sides in the brewing battle over the nomination of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board, but it was already apparent that she was ultimately likely to win confirmation.

We must police ourselves. This tactic is long overdue.

With the clock ticking down to January implementation of several Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mortgage regulations, one expert attempted to bust eight myths about the rules.

The mortgage industry always seems to have an onslaught of new regulatory issues that mortgage lenders and servicers have to follow.

We're hearing that although we just got done with a round of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage reform, there is another one coming from a recent decision in a case involving non-borrowing spouses’ rights.

Foreclosures recently have been falling throughout the country for an extended period of time, and the government-sponsored enterprises continue to do their part in assisting at-risk homeowners from losing their properties.

It was predictable that ABS East would be rife with criticism of the way eminent domain is being used by local governments to seize mortgages.

JPMorgan priced the top-rated portion of its JPMCC 2013-INN CMBS about 10 basis points wide to guidance.

Sears, the other major retail tenant in retail CMBS that remains under credit stress, is listed as a tenant in 197 loans compared to 254 loans for JCPenny.

A group of mortgage-bond investors urged the U.S. attorney general not to let banks saddle them with costs by pledging relief for borrowers to settle U.S. investigations.