Susan Barnes has been named practice leader and head of the Standard & Poor's Structured Finance Residential Mortgage group in North America.Ms. Barnes, previously the senior analytical manager of the residential mortgage group, will manage all of S&P's U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities activities, products, and analysts, the rating agency said. Before joining S&P in 1993, she worked at Citicorp Securities Markets and was previously employed at mortgage companies in both the primary and secondary markets. S&P said Ms. Barnes' activities in recent years included the development of "market-leading RMBS criteria related to anti-predatory-lending laws." S&P Ratings Services can be found on the Web at http://www.standardandpoors.com.
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The Housing for the 21st Century Act includes provisions covering policy, manufactured homes and rural infrastructure introduced in a prior Senate proposal.
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Mortgage loan officer licensing saw its first rise since 2022 as Fannie Mae projects $2.4T in 2026 volume. Experts eye a market reset amid improving affordability.
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The FHFA chief told Fox an offering could be done near term - but may not be - while a Treasury official addressed conservatorship questions at an FSOC hearing.
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The secondary market regulator will formally publish its own rule on Feb. 6, after a comment period and without making changes to what it proposed in July.
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Bowing to industry pressure, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is warning consumers with notices on its complaint portal not to file disputes about inaccurate information on credit reports, among other changes.
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The mortgage technology unit at Intercontinental Exchange posted a profit for the third straight quarter, even as lower minimums among renewals capped growth.
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