PHH Corp. -- which controls the nation's 11th-largest residential servicer -- has called off its sale to General Electric, which had planned to flip the mortgage and fleet lender to The Blackstone Group, an investment banking firm.Back in September, Blackstone first admitted that it was having trouble securing enough debt financing to complete the deal. The publicly traded PHH Corp. owns PHH Mortgage, Mt. Laurel, N.J., a nondepository that has a bank affiliate. In a Jan. 2 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, PHH said it had called off the sale because GE could not complete the transaction by year's end. PHH is now seeking a $50 million termination fee from Blackstone. PHH can be found online at http://www.phh.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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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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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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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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