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Also, FHFA promotes two key staff members, Cenlar welcomes servicing veteran, while Remax and CMG Financial's joint venture names its president.

CFO Julie Booth and General Counsel Angelo Vitale will remain with the Detroit-based company in advisory roles.

Methods to combat the discrimination include lender disclosures explaining the process, industry guidance around reconsiderations of value, uniform 3D property scans and more automated valuation models easier to audit than manual valuations.

The new chief executive comes to the government-sponsored enterprise from national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners and previously held management roles at JPMorgan Chase.

The move follows two consecutive quarterly losses for the REIT and comes just days after its sister non-QM lending business laid off 20% of its staff.

SPCPs are posed as an equitable housing solution but hesitation and confusion about them is persistent in the mortgage industry, housing finance experts said.

A whistleblower complaint on a $250,000 retention award for a Fannie Mae senior executive prompted the investigation of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's procedures.

The trade groups, including the American Bankers Association, allege the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau exceeded its authority by claiming discrimination in any financial product violates the federal prohibition on "unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices."

When voters in Oakland, Berkeley and South San Francisco receive ballots in the mail next month, they'll be asked whether their cities should be allowed to help build more desperately needed affordable housing.

The country's largest banks should deepen partnerships with minority depository institutions and community development financial institutions, and regulators should facilitate that process.