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Deutsche Bank officials have received the go-ahead to finance U.S. home lenders, something it has not done since the financial crisis. The bank's plan is to finance a small, but potentially much larger, mortgage segment that falls outside government standards.

Hiring in the mortgage industry slowed in August, as small lenders added just a few hundred workers to their payrolls, but still managed to increase their headcount for the fourth month in a row.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investors are turning their focus to an appeal and multiple pending lawsuits after a federal judge rejected their bid for a share of the companies' profits.

It might be time for the industry to consider a "less is more" view when it comes to offering consumers mortgage product options.

The collapse of securities tied to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac punished some of Wall Street's best known money managers, with star investor Bruce Berkowitz's main mutual fund losing about $600 million.

A lawsuit filed by low-income housing advocates designed to force the Federal Housing Finance Agency to provide money to a housing trust fund has been blocked by a U.S. district court judge.

Lenders desperately want to make potentially lucrative home loans to those with less-than-stellar credit, but only a few are willing to try given legal uncertainties. Here's how a few are designing their products to get a jump on the competition.

AllRegs has begun publishing FHA single-family policies on its publishing platform.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged in early trading after investors including Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management LLC lost a legal bid yesterday to force the bailed-out companies to share profits with private shareholders.

Hefty penalty seems 'puzzling' since the Seattle and Des Moines FHLB merger seems on track to be the first voluntary merger in the 82-year history of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.