Compliance & Regulation

The Federal Housing Administration appears to be in process of a changing a March directive that made it more difficult to process refinancings.

If the government is bent on winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sooner rather than later, then it helps that some major lenders are committing to buy back soured loans from the government-sponsored enterprises all at once, rather than quarter by quarter.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offered new details about how the agency will examine large credit-reporting firms.

Plenty of mortgage banking firms are lining up to get their Ginnie Mae approvals so they can issue government-backed mortgage bonds and service the underlying loans.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains the correlation between rising student loan debt and its impact on household formation and mortgage originations.

Housing bond volume jumped 36.1% between the first half of 2011 and the first half of this year.

Eminent domain for underwater loans and laws affecting foreclosures do impact loan originators, said the board of the California Association of Mortgage Professionals.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enforcement guide explicitly requires lenders to have chief compliance officers, but what does that really mean?

After Elizabeth Warren's fiery speech to the Democratic National Convention, there is talk that if she wins the Massachusetts Senate seat in November, she may be a contender for president in 2016.

U.S. state attorneys general are pressing four regional banks to accept a legal settlement over botched foreclosures similar to a deal reached with larger competitors earlier this year