Compliance

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note have risen to 2.02% from 1.72% since the Fed announced new bond buying on Sept. 13.

After last year’s false start, the government-sponsored enterprises plan to introduce risk-sharing bonds this year.

The Appraisal Institute is warning current homeowners and prospective homebuyers that neighbors play a major role in a property’s overall value.

Bank of America Corp. lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss American International Group’s fraud claims over devalued Countrywide Financial mortgage-backed securities it had to sell as part of the government bailout.

Raj Date has gone from being a banker skeptical of regulation to being a key leader of one of the most powerful banking regulators: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Issues related to default risk and losses associated with delinquent HOAs are the iceberg many in the industry still fail to see.

Americans who inherited good financial habits from their parents, represent 62% of the borrowers who have a financial plan, are confident in their financial future and also are less likely to default on a mortgage loan.

I recently watched a PBS documentary that laid into regulatory officials for not doing more to find executives involved in the massive mortgage-related securities losses taken during the downturn that they could successfully levy criminal charges against.

Richard Cordray's recess appointment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may ultimately be invalidated, but legal experts say several recent mortgage regulations approved on his watch may still be upheld.

The apparent decisions by EverBank and OneWest Bancorp to finish loan-by-loan foreclosure reviews will provide a glimpse of how the big banks' much-maligned foreclosure look-backs would have panned out.

A former Jefferies & Co. managing director was arrested and accused of defrauding customers of more than $2 million on trades of residential mortgage-backed securities.

The California attorney general’s office has seized six websites that allegedly targeted distressed homeowners who are having trouble with mortgage debt.

First Financial Northwest Inc.’s increased and diversified originations contributed to its return to profitability during the fourth quarter of 2012.

Hurricane Sandy may have given a final push into special servicing to the $103.5 million Long Island Marriott and Conference Center hotel loan.

An American Securitization Forum meeting speaker confirmed regional home value recoveries but said full bond analysis is still needed.

The common goal during the vendor management process is to ensure that the requirements and oversight are met to benefit not only a homeowner, but the entire neighborhood.

Peachtree Hotel Group has embarked in a fast-growth strategy that has been 24 months in the making and will continue in 2013.

An executive at one industry vendor finds the definition of property values in in the midst of a transition.

The Department of Justice charged nine New Jersey residents for operating a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused losses of approximately $10 million.

The uncertainty that has fallen over the mortgage market due to a federal court's ruling that some of President Obama's recess appointments are invalid could be accentuated by the mechanics of the qualified mortgage provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act.