Compliance

Citigroup over the weekend said it will let customers challenge the suspension of home equity loans.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan discusses the current refi boom and its impact on future mortgage origination activity.

Nothing like a couple of high-profile money laundering cases to bring the entire industry into regulators' crosshairs.

A huge boom ahead for mortgage vendors? (You can thank the regulators.)

Compliance with the CFPB’s redesigned borrower disclosure requires new technology and processes.

Ellie Mae COO Jonathan Corr discusses emerging trends in mortgage origination technology.

Citigroup will pay $590 million to settle a class action civil suit brought by investors seeking damages from the bank’s exposure to subprime MBS.

The nation’s five mega-servicers told their attorney general settlement monitor that they modified $10.5 billion of home mortgages for 137,850 troubled borrowers between March 1 and the end of the second quarter.

Any quarter now Fannie Mae will crank up its nonperforming loan auction machine, giving bottom fishers across America a chance to bid on billions of dollars in nonperforming mortgages guaranteed by Uncle Sam.

A mortgage fraud alert was recently issued to the armed services community to combat scams targeted at homeowners seeking to apply for mortgage assistance through the Home Affordable Modification Program.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains it doesn’t want to impose burdensome or unnecessary regulations on small mortgage bankers and depositories that service home mortgages, but few in the industry believe the agency.

Alternative resolutions continue to drive a national decrease in the number of completed foreclosures.

The REO market remains hot, and so are business process management solutions that enable servicers to gain control of processes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the government-owned Residential Capital Corp. for possible misconduct in its loan origination and underwriting practices.

The tamper-evident electronic mortgage seal gets put to the test.

The roots of the mortgage crisis stretch back to 1996 with the introduction of Freddie Mac’s Loan Prospector and Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter automated underwriting systems.

GFI Mortgage Bankers has agreed to pay more than $3.5 million to resolve a lending discrimination lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

As part of Assembly Bill 2314 owners of vacant blighted properties can face fines from $1,000 to $5,000 per day if there are any code violations at the site.

The federal regulatory monitor of the $25 billion robo-signing settlement with the nation’s five mega-servicers has recruited five directors to help manage the Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight.

Findings from Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research indicate a small-ticket remodeling pickup is likely to help lift both near-term and long-term investment.