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

Wells Fargo won an early round in a lawsuit accusing the bank of running a predatory mortgage lending scheme in the Atlanta area before the 2008 financial crisis and continuing to discriminate against minorities for more than a decade afterward.

The permanent staff reductions appear to be concentrated in originations, where pretax income has been lower and outpaced by earnings generated by the servicing division, in line with broader industry trends.

Lawmakers also asked officials to include more perspectives from Veterans Affairs and USDA representatives and increase focus on manufactured home valuations.

The actions involved are based on findings by an interagency task force first convened last year by Marcia Fudge, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The class action complaint comes after U.S. senators called on regulators to investigate the bank’s alleged treatment of minority homeowners.

An audit found that mostly wealthy, white homeowners in urban counties were benefiting from the century-old policy.

This follows the publication last week of an investigation that found that the bank had in 2020 approved only 47% of applications to refinance mortgages completed by Black homeowners compared with 72% of those from White applicants.

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A “small number” of the more than 3,000 workers were affected by the snafu, the company said.

The lender is cutting approximately 3,000 employees in both the U.S. and India three months after its notorious December firing.

The long-awaited Community Reinvestment Act reform plan is likely to address climate change and bank partnerships with nonbank lenders, while also taking into account the shrinking number of U.S. bank branches, government officials said Monday.

New research shows that young Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to buy a home of their own. The co-author of a series of reports will delve into discoveries around the factors why.

Mortgage companies can open doors to homeownership for more minorities by incorporating low-down-payment financing options; closing cost credits; down-payment assistance; diverse, in-market sales teams ready to provide access and support; and more, writes the chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

More company leaders have resigned as Better.com continues to pursue new executives in an attempt to fix its internal culture.

The complaint seeks unspecified damages over the bank’s mortgage origination and underwriting practices, alleging minority homebuyers were excluded from affordable, low-risk loans.

The National Fair Housing Alliance's framework, named Purpose, Process and Monitoring, looks to examine the lifecycle of an artificial intelligence model in order to avoid unfairly discriminatory outcomes.

The lender and servicer cited negative media coverage over two dozen times in a filing describing the fallout of CEO Vishal Garg’s mass layoffs in December.

Housing rights advocates said minority home-buyers and homeowners in 39 U.S. metropolitan areas will receive the funds as a result of a legal action alleging racial discrimination in the government-sponsored enterprise's foreclosure practices.

The researchers found that the disparities that emerged from the analysis of 1.8 million appraisals from 2019 and 2020 were statistically significant.