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Consumers increasingly demand one-stop shop homeownership. How does RESPA evolve as this consumer demand mortgage gives rise to mortgage and real estate joint ventures, as well as mortgage firms integrating multiple homeownership services into one experience? Does RESPA actually keep consumer costs lower? Or is it making prices higher by requiring every provider to incur their own customer acquisition cost? Is there a place for responsible one-stop models in the modern housing market?

Venture capitalists are looking at a maturing mortgage, real estate, and fintech landscape and putting al, the dots together. What are the best ideas as we move into 2022?

In the agreement, the bank denied allegations that it refused to issue a mortgage until one of the applicants returned to work from maternity leave.

As the West isolates Russia with sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine, policymakers are using the global financial system as a weapon to help stop the war. What will the impact be on banks?

As the crisis in the Ukraine unfolds, markets have been upended creating a volatile environment for all asset classes, including the municipal market.

Servicing gains failed to offset steep origination declines at the bank, which continues to battle allegations of racial discrimination.

While both refinance and purchase customers were banging down the doors in 2021, leading producers are already working much harder as they change up their offerings.

As risk management becomes a major driver for banks, we discuss how to approach these questions in a different way

Last year, mortgage originators had the best of everything — low interest rates that attracted plenty of refinancings and increasing purchase demand at the same time. While they're preparing for a rockier road ahead, we're celebrating their accomplishments in 2021.

A former Wells Fargo executive will replace Bair next month as part of a broader shakeup of the government-sponsored lender's leadership ranks. Chief Executive Hugh Frater is also stepping down.

The municipality and the bank have been at odds over similar issues in the past, and no agency currently has deposit accounts with the lender.

Decreasing affordability and remote work is spurring interest in moving to these often overlooked markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau argues borrowers in the case had a right to answers even if the inquiries were origination related and foreclosure litigation was pending.

New York Fed researchers found that banks operating in areas hit by tornadoes, floods and other calamities weren’t financially hurt by those disasters. That surprising result comes with significant caveats, however.

Louisiana's Transportation Secretary and the former Assistant to the President for Infrastructure discuss the state of play in the U.S. P3 sector, the impact of the new infrastructure law, and what's in store for the next decade.

The core function of the Federal Home Loan Bank System — advances to member institutions — plummeted 20% last year to $350 billion, its lowest level in 15 years. That erosion of purpose is emboldening critics, who say the Home Loan banks need to change or face irrelevance.

Questionnaires sent to banks in recent months seek information about loans to same-sex couples, women on maternity leave and people with limited English proficiency. Industry executives and attorneys say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may be offering hints about specific types of fair-lending cases it could pursue.

In conversation with Patti Cook, CEO of Finance of America Companies