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The accord resolves a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development alleging that the algorithms used in Meta’s advertising systems allowed marketers to violate fair housing laws by limiting or blocking certain groups of people from seeing housing ads on the service. 

The Government Accountability Office said that examiner guidance at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency didn’t take into account new statistical methods to uncover potential redlining.

The CRA has failed to reduce anti-Black racial discrimination in financial services, to lower poverty or to lessen environmental destruction.

New home equity conversion mortgage endorsements slowed in April, but remained almost 50% higher than the level from one year ago.

Some economists see a recession as inevitable but other markers, like the unemployment rate and consumption indicators, point to a resilient economy.

Rising interest rates and emergence from pandemic contingencies could put increased strain on the ability to repay, but signs of near-term loan performance stress have been limited.

But total volume is still 53% below last year’s level, while Fannie Mae found the dollar value of refinances down by over 70%.

JPMorgan Chase is laying off hundreds of home-lending employees and reassigning hundreds more this week as rapidly rising mortgage rates drive down demand in what had been a red-hot housing market.

Depreciation risk in parts of New Jersey, Illinois and California is growing, according to a first quarter analysis by Attom Data Solutions.

As fewer mortgage borrowers remain impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the subservicer elected to reduce the capacity it added over the past two years.