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An analysis shows how much money consumers are losing by not comparing offers from different lenders.

The San Francisco-based bank — which regulators seized and sold to JPMorgan Chase early this month — was paying dozens of employees more than $10 million apiece annually in the heyday before its collapse.

This summer, the Department of Veterans Affairs will introduce a new kind of a "last-ditch effort" to keep veterans in homes, by making servicers whole and putting the delinquent borrowers on an exclusive interest rate.

The Federal Reserve Board governor said secular increases to the currency supply limits how much the central bank can shrink its holdings.

The 30-year conforming average reached its highest point since March last week, while loan application volumes finished 35% below their levels from a year ago, a trade group said.

Single-family officials at an industry conference also quantified some of the progress they're making with alternative credit data, and noted that digital validations can help reduce defects.

During her opening remarks before lawmakers Tuesday, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency reiterated that borrowers with strong credit profiles are not being penalized to benefit those with poorer scores.

The investor segment will have to be mindful as it gains ground, executives said Tuesday, noting that the sector takes experience, skill and savvy awareness of risks.

Only an act of Congress can allow the lenders to become members, two bank presidents emphasized.

Some stakeholders have worried about the estimated date for the transition to a new way of calculating credit worthiness, but an official assured attendees at an industry conference that the agency won't act prematurely.