Compliance & Regulation

House Republicans are asking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for documents related to work on its qualified mortgage rule amid claims that former employees are seeking to profit from measures they helped write.

Bank of America Corp. said federal and state agencies plan to press more civil claims tied to mortgage and debt offerings.

The CFPB has issued a formal policy in which it encourages lenders to come forward and provides specific guidelines as to the extent of forgiveness.

In one case, the government went back 30 years for a business owing payroll taxes.

President Obama has nominated Federal Reserve Gov. Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the new deputy secretary at the Treasury Department.

One mortgage compliance expert compares rules enforcement to the construction of an automobile.

We're hearing from New York, known as the Empire State.

Analysts expect securitized commercial mortgage loans will be strong enough to shoulder interest rate increases at refinance when they come due in 2022 and 2023.

NCUA banned a former real estate appraiser used by Deere Harvester CU for filing false appraisals to allow members to refinance their home loans with the Davenport, Iowa, credit union.

The total balance of first-mortgage loans 90 days past due or in foreclosure was $325 billion in June.