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Thomas Pahl has been appointed acting director of the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection bureau, the agency said Wednesday.

Some experts say President Trump is being advised to hold off on firing CFPB's Richard Cordray to get the Supreme Court to rule on the extent of the president's executive powers.

The Urban Institute's Housing Finance Policy Center has created a new initiative aimed at addressing skyrocketing mortgage servicing costs.

Genworth Financial's U.S. mortgage insurance business had adjusted operating income of $61 million in the fourth quarter, up over 50% from the same period in 2015, as its new insurance written grew by 42% year over year.

A greater share of millennial women leveraged Federal Housing Administration loans than millennial men, Ellie Mae found in its latest Millennial Tracker report.

The share of refinance applications is at its lowest level in over seven and a half years, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Corporate borrowers aren't ready just yet to pull the trigger on multimillion-dollar loans to buy fleets of trucks or scads of new inventory despite excitement about a more business-friendly Washington, lenders cautioned.

Joseph Ficalora, New York Community's CEO, told analysts that his company could still have a chance to buy Astoria "down the road."

Mortgage credit availability increased in January amidst wider access to jumbo loans, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Home prices ended 2016 with yet another year-over-year uptick, according to CoreLogic.