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Around 432,000 homeowners exited their pandemic-related payment suspensions in the first 19 days of October and more than 280,000 plans have month-end review dates, but the number of private-loan plans increased.

Trustmark Bank agreed to pay $9 million to resolve allegations that it discriminated against Black and Hispanic residents in Memphis, Tennessee. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice and other agencies will continue their crackdown.

Kristen Carlisle is general manager at Betterment at Work.

Seasonal patterns are also playing a part in the slowdown in buyer demand, the company said.

Eric Halperin, a longtime consumer advocate, is the first big hire by the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The industry is prioritizing Black and Hispanic consumers in the interest of social equity and to tap new markets amid declining refinance volume and rising rates.

Scott Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Department of Economics.

Christian Catalini is the chief economist of the Diem Association and Diem Networks US, and co-creator of Diem (formerly Libra).

The firm, dubbed Polpo Capital, is looking to produce a 15% net return to investors with modest leverage by capitalizing on the coming distress in commercial mortgage debt as forbearance agreements expire

Several housing groups wrote a letter calling for “substantially improved written proposals” for the period starting in 2022, and support for chattel manufactured-home loans.