Compliance & Regulation

For 40 years Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the envy of the financial world.

A company that provided real estate appraisals to a former mortgage lending giant during the run-up to the housing crisis will pay a fine to settle charges that its appraisers conspired with the lender to puff up home values.

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.