Compliance & Regulation

The Federal Reserve said the U.S. economic expansion remained “moderate” amid gains in manufacturing, housing and autos that offset weakness in defense-related industries in some regions.

Bank of America has agreed to settle with investors who alleged that Countrywide misled them about mortgage-backed securities sales.

Xerox has restructured its signature lending platform to facilitate data exchanges between lenders, servicers, investors and third parties.

From smartphones and tablets to social networking, technology infiltrated the way we live so immensely it is hard to imagine not having them constantly at our fingertips.

It would almost seem reasonable for large banks to first extend the Home Affordable Refinance Program to those most at-risk, but many still need help.

Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan is pressing House and Senate Banking leaders for the authority to regulate FHA’s reverse mortgage program through the issuance of mortgagee letters.

A real estate investor has entered a guilty plea related to his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California.

Raj Date, the former deputy director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has started a multifaceted bank advisory firm.

Regulatory change is taking increasingly bigger bites out of community bank lenders' bottom lines.

Community bankers sounded more warnings about the Dodd-Frank reform law and proposed Basel III requirements.