Compliance & Regulation

The Mortgage Bankers Association wants the White House to appoint a “traffic cop” to provide some coordination over the onslaught of mortgage regulations that will be issued over the next six months.

Ohio State University is coming to market Wednesday with $350 million of bonds that feature a new credit for the state’s leading flagship university.

Standard & Poor's raised the Chicago Housing Authority's issuer credit rating one notch to AA following criteria changes.

He calls the law tightening oversight of Wall Street among the most “harmful our capital markets have seen,” while she has compared bankers to gangsters.

Even before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau comes out with rules this week to address servicing failures, the National Consumer Law Centerat is crying foul.

A recent DC Circuit Court decision granting “standing” to surviving non-borrowing-spouses who sued HUD is an opportunity for HUD to solve this festering legacy legal, financial, and reputational problem.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency will have a new deputy director who left the FDIC to head its division of housing mission and goals.

First and second mortgage default rates were “the principal culprits” to an eight basis point monthly increase of the December 2012 National Consumer Credit Default Indices.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has approved a final rule that imposes new appraisal requirements on lenders in mortgage transactions where the homebuyer is being charged a higher-than-normal mortgage rate.