The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. encouraged banks to heed Fincen guidance expanding the PATRIOT Act's safe harbor for voluntary information sharing between banks to combat fraud.

A Florida appraiser faces decades in prison after taking another's identity and claiming he conducted on-site inspection reports while based abroad.

A tour of the technology that banking has run on, dating back to Franklin's anti-counterfeit measures and the bank-note bulletin that preceded American Banker.

A mortgage customer claims his data was compromised in a hack last year at a tax and accounting firm reportedly used by the wholesale giant.

Priority Financial Network CEO Marc Shenkman allegedly told a former employee to "keep his resume out there" because he planned to get Lendwise shut down.

If approved, the deal can provide relief for the approximately 662,000 individuals affected by an incident at the mortgage vendor last November.

The merger will bolster existing safeguards against AI threats, while providing a tool that should appeal to young homebuyers, leaders of the companies said.

The clarification spells out what banks can share to stop scams. The Bank Policy Institute welcomed it but wants Congress to write the protection into law.

Provident Bank says My Mortgage used a $10 million line of credit to fund dozens of ineligible, dilapidated properties and sold them to their own employees.

Regulators will award a total of $3 million to over 1,800 households after a judge penalized Home Matters USA over its mortgage relief fraud scheme.

Cotality's fraud risk index hit its best mark since 2023, but investment and multifamily properties are driving elevated risk.

The office, which follows the state's criminalization of the white-collar fraud, will flag suspicious property filings and improve data-sharing across agencies.

A new EquityProtect scorecard finds 16 states have no deed fraud laws, leaving homeowners vulnerable as real estate fraud losses topped $275 million in 2025, with seniors bearing the heaviest financial burden.

FundingShield's latest report notes the improvement in remediation efforts among lenders, but closing protection lenders remain a key source of file problems.

The industry reported $275 million in losses from internet crimes last year, a 59% annual increase as losses nationwide surpassed $20 billion.

Finance of America has not disclosed any incident, but a consumer filed an immediate lawsuit over a lone report of a ransomware gang's recent hack.

Pulte alleged that James appeared to misrepresent who would occupy property in separate homeowner insurance applications, saying the documents could indicate that James "may have defrauded" insurers in those states.

The Long Island-based lender is one of five nonbanks since January to have disclosed a prior hack, with the extent of those incidents remaining unknown.

TruLookup for Real Estate reduces the need for Realtors to access multiple databases or download numerous apps when researching a potential client or property.

Eleven defendants face fraud and money laundering charges in a California case involving elderly homeowners and private lenders, prosecutors said.