Compliance & Regulation

The California attorney general said three business owners who ran a national loan modification scam for over a year have to pay a least $4 million in restitution.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is setting up special advisory boards to get input from small banks and credit unions on regulatory policies.

Company leaders think the REO-to-rental strategy is the future wave of the industry since most Americans, particularly young adults, do not view homeownership as a stable investment.

The field service company’s contractors can make face-to-face contact with a borrower to help determine if he or she is actively serving in the military.

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Sarah Bloom Raskin urged regulators to narrow a proposed exemption to the Volcker Rule, saying it may allow banks to avoid compliance with the ban on proprietary trading.

Seven affordable housing groups are urging the Department of Justice, HUD and federal regulators to investigate whether the prevalence FHA and VA lending in minority neighborhoods—and the low percentage of conventional lending—is a result of racial steering.

In a joint letter, four trade associations note that paying commissions based solely on loan volume does not run afoul of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Forget refinancing. A new hypothesis suggests targeted modifications would be much more effective in easing the negative equity crisis.

A Federal Reserve Board proposal to enact strict limits on how much credit exposure the largest banks can have to a major counterparty has significant design flaws that could raise the cost of credit, according to new analysis by the Clearing House.

CoreLogic earned $41 million off revenue of $389 million during the second quarter of 2012—new records for the company which was spun off from the First American Corp. in June 2010.