Compliance & Regulation

Want to sell your mortgage company? What will your tax rate be next year?

The new rules for calculating risk-weighted assets will have a particularly dramatic impact on the capital needed to support a mortgage-banking platform.

Banks are spending lots of money fighting fraud, but security experts say they could do better when it comes to mitigating fraud and detecting money laundering.

The National Credit Union Administration has filed suit against UBS Securities claiming securities fraud in the sale of $1.1 billion of MBS.

If President Obama wins re-election in November, the Democrats' agenda for the financial policy realm will include defending their past achievements. But the GSEs will be at the top of their 'To Do' list.

Tommy Lister is one of three people to admit guilt so far in mortgage fraud scheme in California.

The Federal Housing Administration said 56% of the 54,000 borrowers in default on their FHA Home Equity Conversion Mortgage are participating in a “repayment plan to pay off their outstanding T&I debt.”

United Guaranty Corp. says servicers for loans it provides mortgage insurance on where borrowers were affected by Hurricane Isaac will not need prior approval from the MI for implementing forbearance measures.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is calling for reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, promising it will be a priority if he wins the November election.

Mitt Romney may not have a firm grasp on the true causes of the mortgage crisis. But luckily there's still time.