Law and legal issues

The verdict ends a decade-long lawsuit over the Federal Housing Finance Agency's amendment to a stock repurchase agreement in 2012.

Former employees claim the company made staffers attend pre-shift meetings before permitting them to clock in, according to a suit filed in a U.S. District Court in Michigan.

The bank, which already agreed to refund home loan applicants over the charges, is asking a federal judge to toss the suit on numerous grounds.

Under settlements with the SEC, Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas will pay millions of dollars in penalties for employees using unofficial communications like WhatsApp. In all 11 firms agreed to pay penalties, while the CFTC took separate actions.

The number of loan officers sponsored by the company has dipped by more than half to 169 originators from June to July, per NMLS. More are said to be leaving.

Lender Toolkit provides services to support ICE Mortgage Technology's Encompass platform, along with artificial intelligence software.

The alleged scam targeted elderly Vietnamese-American homeowners in California and fooled banks into distributing illicit funds to the perpetrators.

A Texas judge dealt the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a setback that has changed the bureau's calculus for furthering its near-term agenda. But an ambitious Supreme Court could also call all of the bureau's final rules into question.

The owner of Tri-Emerald Financial Group claimed unregistered securities it was offering would increase in value by more than tenfold before an eventual Nasdaq listing.

The mortgage industry may be largely in the dark about the process, which could save homeowners potentially thousands of dollars a year.

A New Jersey federal jury sided with the subservicer's claims that the lender "fraudulently" took this sum in May 2016 when it was transferring back its portfolio.

The lender agreed to pay $502,000 to put to rest allegations it violated the Garden State's consumer protection laws.

Plaintiffs accuse the NAR and the multiple listing services of antitrust violations because of rules around shared broker compensation fees.

The incident occurred in November 2020 when an unauthorized party gained access to company systems and deployed ransomware, resulting in compromise of employees' personal information.

The accusations build on those previously outlined in a lawsuit filed by former chief operating officer Tamara Richards in 2021.

The disgruntled worker, among other actions, entered false information into the firm's Optimal Blue platform causing severe economic damages, the lender said.

The agency co-filed an amicus brief in a case involving a "commercial" lien that could have implications on how the Truth in Lending Act might be enforced based on a loan's purpose, rather than classification.

The home lending shop is suing LoanCare for negligence in how it managed loans from 2012 to 2016.

Three creditors filed for Chapter 7 protection on behalf of the embattled lender this month, seeking a combined $1.3 million.

Both the plaintiffs and the bank filed a motion for the federal court to reconsider the settlement, which was reached in mid- 2022, but the judge responded that neither party articulated "sufficient reasoning to meet the high bar."