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Robert Kazdin worked for 20 years in housing finance and mortgage regulation. He served as a director of mortgage credit pricing at Fannie Mae, as a senior examiner at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, or FHFA, and as a regulator at the Office of Thrift Supervision. He is currently retired.

The company that the global firm is investing in owns a U.S. mortgage correspondent business and another domestic lender that does business with brokers.

Davide Santonocito is an AI Engineer and QA expert at Sollers Consulting, specializing in ensuring the reliability, performance, and governance of agentic AI systems in insurance.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized changes to Regulation B, which implements the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, to eliminate any liability for indirect discrimination by lenders. The change represents a major shift in how the agency polices lending discrimination.

Nearly half of respondents say if these payments rise, it would make it difficult to meet their mortgage obligations, according to The Zebra.

The company will be using a simplified name and a new logo it says shows its unified business model, but its longstanding tagline will stay in place.

The contract rate on a 30-year mortgage dropped for a third week to 6.35%, the lowest since mid-March

The investment property owner says she was stonewalled and humiliated by BofA's loan officers, and that an error-riddled appraisal was short by over $70,000.

An independent auditor raised "substantial doubt" about the company's viability as it may not be able to extend forbearance deadlines on massive debts.

The new law adds rules, including counseling requirements, which would put severe constraints on originations of HEIs, an industry representative said.