Compliance & Regulation

Regulators are starting to see the effects of a $25 billion national mortgage servicing settlement with an increase in new loan modification trial-period plans.

The Federal Reserve’s third quantitative easing program has been doing a good job lowering mortgage rates, or at least that was the case at our press deadline.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's expanded the definition of origination could have a profound impact on nonproducing branch managers.

Freddie Mac won’t have to face a lawsuit filed by investors accusing it of misrepresenting the state of its finances in 2007 and 2008, a federal judge ruled.

At national banks the percentage of mortgages that were current or performing was 88.7% at the end of the quarter, compared with 88.1% a year earlier.

Borrowers in 900 communities in 48 states will continue to have access to Rural Housing Service-backed single-family loans for at least another six months.

Probably more than 200 people per week are being indicted and/or convicted nationwide for mortgage fraud.

A new report from the inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency slams the agency for delegating too much management authority to the government-sponsored enterprises on major business decisions.

Can Mitt Romney save the mortgage industry from regulatory overkill?

U.S. residential mortgages’ losses are too small to account for the 2008 financial crisis, implying they were a sign of other causes rather than the main cause, according to industry analyst Mark Adelson.