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Political contributions from the housing finance industry lean Republican, but more mortgage dollars have gone to Harris than Trump.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's nonbank registry to address repeat corporate offenders goes live this week, but some experts have raised concerns about redundancy and costs for nonbanks.

Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said his tenure at the agency could be characterized as simply reading statutes rather than finding novel ways to enforce regulations.

Backflip, a fix-and-flip and residential transition loan originator, added $184 million in new capital from equity and debt transactions, its second raise of the year.

Updates to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act aimed at simplifying customers' ability to opt out of robocalls and robotexts will take effect on April 11, 2025.

Rising rates have apparently erased the optimism stemming from last month's Federal Reserve interest rate cut.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Justice issued a consent order against Wisconsin-based nonbank mortgage originator Fairway Independent Mortgage over redlining allegations. Fairway is the country's fifth-largest mortgage originator by volume.

Ginnie Mae is more concerned about a small economic downturn than a large one and is working with other public entities to prepare and survive should it come to pass.

The settlement pending a judge's approval would end the lawsuit over a hack last December.

Reversing a year-ago trend, the U.S. economy and plateauing interest rates led to credit tightening in September, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.