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The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has developed a solution for smaller-size businesses for which cyber-crime-related data breaches are as challenging as prevention costs.

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said Tuesday that she is preparing to unveil an alternative housing finance reform proposal to rival more conservative legislation backed by many House Republicans.

JPMorgan Chase is easing mortgage lending standards in housing markets hard hit by the crash where prices are surging.

We're hearing recent reform offers Home Equity Conversion Mortgages more hope.

Bill McBride of Calculated Risk finds the August Las Vegas housing market trends are offering the best window so far into whether the residential real estate inventory has bottomed.

Safeguard Properties is being sued by the state of Illinois alleging that the company violated the Consumer Fraud Act by illegally dispossessed occupants from their homes without proper jurisdiction.

The HUD Inspector General and Department of Justice officials are in settlement talks with some the largest Federal Housing Administration lenders.

One poster is seeking an answer from the Mortgage Grapevine community regarding investment property refinance guidelines.

The Massachusetts attorney general said that Barclays will pay $36.1 million to settle allegations that it financed, purchased and securitized residential loans during the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Wells Fargo will invest $11.4 million to help accelerate the economic recovery through neighborhood improvement projects in 25 cities affected by the foreclosure crisis.

Progress Residential, a single-family rental company started by former Goldman Sachs Group partner Donald R. Mullen Jr., obtained a $400 million credit line from Deutsche Bank AG.

Providing a multichannel approach to collecting borrower information can lower costs and provide a better customer experience.

The Federal Home Loan Bank system saw its strongest advances growth in nearly six years in the second quarter as banks began to see depositors exit.

Mobile cloud technology is singlehandedly changing mortgage and field servicing processes, according to at least one insider, in ways that are both evident and obscure.

Bank of America will eliminate about 2,100 jobs and shutter 16 mortgage offices as rising interest rates weaken loan demand, said two people with direct knowledge of the plans.

Raffi Oghlian conspired to defraud financial institutions of nearly $2 million through a mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and straw buyers to make illegal profits from the sale of overpriced townhomes.

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to stop accepting commissions from the nation's top provider of force-placed insurance in an agreement that could loom large for other big banks alleged to have overbilled homeowners on insurance premiums.

The banking committees are set to resume debate over housing finance reform when Congress returns from summer recess on Monday, but the issue will be just one of many facing lawmakers during a busy fall.

Richard Cordray's political savvy has given him a knack for relating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work to vastly different audiences during public speeches.