Compliance

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.

Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan explains the impact that housing is having on the U.S. economy.

The conundrum the industry is grappling with is accelerating short sales while simultaneously detecting and preventing the growing incidence of fraud these transactions may produce.

Over the past several years, there has been an increased focus on determining risk associated with the participants facilitating a loan transaction.

Morrison & Foerster can't say it hired the attorney who wrote the CFPB's rulebook. But it picked up the guy who started the job.

Phillip Matous wants to make sure legislators in his state understand the weight of the regulatory burden credit unions and other lenders are bearing.

Four years is a long time, but even longer when comparing banks' relationship with Washington since the last round of political conventions.

A controversial proposal by three California municipalities to seize underwater mortgages through eminent domain could face significant legal challenges because state law prohibits local governments from taking property and conveying it to a private company.

Data integrity is the key to compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act.

Equifax's latest monthly national consumer credit trends report shows a decline from July 2011 in the amount of overall mortgage debt and a decrease in residential mortgage delinquencies.

The Attorney Generals in Arizona and California are pursuing loan modification fraud cases.