Compliance & Regulation

Kroll Bond Rating Agency has released a presale report on a $1.4 billion commercial mortgage-backed securities deal in which some large split loans are or will be shared with other securitizations.

BuckleySandler hired Benjamin Olson, the former deputy assistant director for the office of regulations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to expand the firm’s government enforcement and regulatory practice.

It is going to take an all-out effort by lenders to implement the new mortgage rules by next January.

A participant in past attempts to reform Fannie Mae’s lender-placed insurance practices has officially supported more recent proposals by its regulator.

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau final rule goes into effect June 1 that prohibits mandatory arbitration clauses in mortgage loans.

Colony American Homes filed to raise as much as $260 million in an initial public offering.

Three executives from the now-defunct Bank of the Commonwealth and a borrower were convicted by a federal jury in Virginia for fraud that cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. an estimated $268 million.

For those entities that believe they are too small to be impacted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, think again.

A bipartisan group of senators is drafting legislation designed to reform the housing finance system, including a plan to wind down the government-sponsored enterprises.

What is being disputed in the courts is when the clock starts ticking on the statute of limitations.