Dodd-Frank

Formal guidance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about investors' liability for errors on the upfront Loan Estimate disclosure could go a long way toward easing secondary market anxieties about purchasing mortgages with TRID errors.

The 12-member committee is expected to advise HUD on how to improve housing counseling and make it more accessible.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other federal banking agencies should do more to protect consumers with limited English proficiency, a report from Americans for Financial Reform says.

Lenders that sell both forward and reverse mortgages must carefully consider how their products are offered to older borrowers to avoid confusion that could lead to accusations of financial abuse.

Ares Capital, the publicly traded lender managed by alternative-investment firm Ares Management, will acquire American Capital Ltd. in a deal valued at $3.4 billion.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray sent a four-page response to Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., about new mortgage disclosures but fell short of providing any new official guidance to address industry concerns.

The courts would not be getting involved in defining the reach of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if the architects of the agency had instituted a commission to oversee it.

The recent proposal is less about fixing fundamental flaws in our mortgage finance system and more about finding a broadly acceptable path to resolving the current impasse in mortgage finance reform.

Ruth Paloma Rivera just bought her first home, battling her way through the paperwork obstacle course that is the post-crisis American banking system.

Two appeals court judges raised constitutional questions Monday about the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the agency's case alleging that PHH Corp. accepted illegal kickbacks.