Compliance & Regulation

Polls showing an upswing for President Trump's re-election chances against top potential Democratic candidates favor housing finance and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to Height Capital Markets.

The Department of Banking and Insurance in New Jersey is warning that enforcement of a 2019 residential mortgage servicer licensing law will begin in 2020.

Consumer attorneys are filing more Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuits than ever and if a piece of follow-up legislation becomes law, the peril to mortgage lenders will grow.

A risk-based capital rule for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is expected to top the agenda in 2020 as the companies' regulator executes plans for their release into the private sector.

A trade group is looking into why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo felt foreclosure risks were too high to sign a bill that would have approved reverse mortgages for cooperative properties.

Now is not the time for the government to cut Federal Housing Administration premiums and enter new segments of the housing market.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faces a busy policy agenda heading into the new year, as well as strong external forces that are beyond its control.

The board- and management-level handing of CRE concentration was the chief concern of FDIC examiners, making up more than 56% of all the supervisory recommendations regulators made in the two-year period.

The mayor of Taylor, Mich., was indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations of bribery related to the sale of tax-foreclosed properties

The United Kingdom’s legal separation of retail deposit-taking from risker activities prevents banks from transferring domestic earnings internally, and the trapped capital has become the catalyst for a mortgage price war.