Law and regulation

Sometimes the best buyers turn out to be sellers.

Forecasting the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is always a tricky business.

Battered by defaults on loans it insures, the Federal Housing Administration is expected to tap the Treasury Department for $1 billion to $1.5 billion to plug a budget shortfall.

You’d need a Shakespeare to do justice to the struggle over LO compensation.

Rising mortgage interest rates are undercutting a revival in the housing market and creating a drag on the economy.

Countrywide is alleged to have defrauded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of more than $1 billion in mortgages.

Lax mortgage standards and an unhealthy amount of risk taken by financial institutions and other market participants led to an economy that was not rooted in reality.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is hardly an inscrutable agency.

This year, the market for mortgage servicing rights has heated up and the price for these rights has increased at least one full multiple while the number of active buyers appears to have quadrupled on advertised bids.

Providing incomplete information can mean heavy fines or worse, making it crucial for mortgage companies to have proper compliance technology in place.

Banks can expect changes to federal reporting requirements for mortgage data, according to the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Sen. Bob Corker, a co-author of legislation to overhaul the mortgage finance market, forcefully defended his proposal that private capital take at least 10% of the first loss on mortgage-backed securities.

One mortgage executive pointed out that a complaint about a mortgage or servicing is a lot more personal than the standard banking complaint.

Richmond’s plan to keep homeowners out of foreclosure by seizing underwater mortgages through eminent domain is a credit negative.

The effort, which starts today, could help boost the flagging refinancing boom in the U.S.

We're hearing the mortgage industry is looking favorably on the latest Federal Reserve Board easing plan.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City president Esther George said the central bank missed an opportunity to begin reducing bond purchases because markets were primed for such a move.

Moody’s Investor Service is considering changing the way it rates covered bonds to take into account the additional support they would receive in the event of a bank failure.

Fair lending seeks to answer the question of whether a person was treated differently based upon a protected characteristic.