Compliance & Regulation

The GSE regulator should defer to Congress before taking any steps to reduce the Fannie Mae and Freddie loans limits.

The nation's four largest banks are holding $57 billion of seriously delinquent loans that they've been slow to move into foreclosure over concerns that the Federal Housing Administration will refuse to cover the losses and hit them with damages.

Using technology is important for the monitoring of an appraiser from the time he or she starts working for an originator.

The government-sponsored enterprises are making significant progress toward creating a common securitization platform for the issuance of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac MBS.

There are still 121 rules mandated by Dodd-Frank that have not even been proposed yet—nearly a third of the rules mandated by the law.

With all of the consumer privacy laws on the books, both at a federal and state level, one poster raises a very interesting question.

Deutsche Bank is collaborating with Bloomberg on a new option-adjusted spread model for agency mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations.

A revival of U.S. issuance of mortgage bonds not guaranteed by the government is being stymied by the Federal Reserve’s debate over when to reduce record stimulus.

American International Group’s mortgage insurer, whose biggest rival is a U.S. agency, is wooing borrowers with the prospect that they’ll avoid delays tied to the partial government shutdown.

We're hearing the “new urbanism” may change the underwriting for home loans, especially if millennials maintain their preference for city living.