Compliance & Regulation

While the Bipartisan Housing Commission produced a long-range plan for reshaping the housing finance system, it also called attention to more immediate issues that need to be addressed by regulators.

A former member of the rock band KISS is facing mortgage trouble on his upstate New York home.

We're hearing that some of the relative call protection found in Ginnie Mae securitizations may not last.

Sen. Bob Corker released a statement downplaying an earlier report suggesting the lawmaker is "angling to broker a compromise" with President Obama over the confirmation of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Community bankers have long harbored concerns about fair lending laws, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement potential has executives flat-out spooked.

Herman Thordsen has put up a post about the new California foreclosure laws.

Post-closing document management has taken on new importance in the mortgage industry, particularly in light of record foreclosure volume, the robo-signing scandal and subsequent regulations and scrutiny.

Mortgage fraud risk through the end of 2012 is at its highest level in three years.

Community bankers are growing increasingly concerned that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will eliminate one of their bread-and-butter products: balloon loans.

As the overseer of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has a duty to safeguard taxpayer dollars.