A group of Democratic Senators led by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged regulators to keep the 2023 Community Reinvestment Act overhaul, saying the rule was carefully crafted with bipartisan input.

As President Trump calls for scrapping quarterly earnings reports and switching to a six-month schedule, industry observers wonder whether the time saved would be worth the potential loss of transparency.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency director should spend less time on partisan attacks and social media posting, and more on trying to resolve the housing crisis.

The American Land Title Association is supporting Fidelity National Financial's efforts to stop an anti-money laundering rule from going into effect.

The federal regulator terminated the wholesale lender's FHA approvals in six jurisdictions because of certain elevated default and claim rate data.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told its staff to expect an upcoming reduction in force because the agency's budget was cut in half by the president's recently passed tax and budget bill.

Mortgage experts say the government can tweak closing costs, offer tax incentives around home sales and reduce interest rates by various means.

US Chief Justice John Roberts let President Donald Trump temporarily oust a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling that the Supreme Court is likely to back Trump's bid to assert control over the independent agency.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is telling financial institutions that they must safeguard customer data even when federal agencies request information in criminal investigations, addressing Republican concerns about debanking that arose after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

White House National Economic Council NEC Director Kevin Hassett endorsed insulating the Fed from political pressure but echoed Trump allies' calls for reevaluating its mission.

Leads from aggregators like Lendingtree could become more valuable as the legislation cuts down on the noise in the market, experts suggested.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released a packed agenda centered on rewriting rules ranging from small business lending to open banking while rescinding several rules finalized under the Biden Administration last year.

The Homeowners Privacy Protection Act will go into effect next March 5, after a years' long effort by the mortgage industry to bar the marketing tactic.

Stephen Miran will take unpaid leave from and might seek to return to President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers, he said, raising conflict of interest questions in his nomination hearing for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.

The home insurer's objections to an in-person public hearing with regulators are dismissed by a California administrative judge, along with efforts to separate and postpone wildfire claim handling complaints from the rate hearings.

The American Fintech Council wants Congress to amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to preempt state privacy laws with both entity-level and data-level exemptions, as well as eliminating restrictions on the secondary use of data.

Most big banks saw modest reductions in their requirements following this year's stress tests. The results come as the Fed prepares to smooth year-to-year swings with a new averaging rule.

Mortgage lenders with servicing operations will have more access to automation that cancels surety bonds soon and will need a new registration to accommodate it.

The American Fintech Council publicly declared support for California SB 69, which would require "internal expertise" for artificial intelligence regulation.

Legal experts say President Trump's unprecedented move to fire Cook over alleged past misconduct will likely be hashed out in court, but there is little precedent to determine whether a sitting board governor can be removed for past actions.