There is a great opportunity this year to show the world that Congress can still pass bipartisan, common-sense legislation that helps lift the U.S. economy.

Litigation is soaking up a significant share of resources at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which faces at least a dozen cases challenging its constitutionality and a surging number of legal disputes to its enforcement actions.

HSBC has fulfilled its obligation under the National Mortgage Settlement and will no longer be monitored for compliance.

Pittsburgh is considering offering bigger tax breaks for developers building affordable housing or creating businesses in depressed neighborhoods, but critics say the revamped abatement programs won't do enough to address a low-income housing shortage.

Lenders are feeling some relief on the regulatory front, but they still expect their compliance expenses to rise, according to a recent Lenders One survey.

The Senate Banking Committee may pass a number of small legislative proposals to help banks and credit unions, but the panel is still figuring out what sort of package can ultimately be agreed upon, top Democrats said Tuesday.

The ICBA backs a plan to recapitalize Fannie and Freddie through retained earnings and public offerings, but other groups see it as a self-interested proposal to help GSE stockholders.

While a House bill expected to be passed this week has little chance in the Senate, some of its individual provisions could be enacted by Congress, including one aimed at banks' systemic threshold.

Three Northern California men, including one of Oakland's largest landlords, were convicted of creating a massive bid-rigging scheme to scoop up hundreds of foreclosed properties at suppressed prices.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the direct crosshairs of a federal lawsuit questioning its leadership structure. But it might be the independence of all federal agencies on trial.

Deutsche Bank has reached a $95 million settlement with Maryland stemming from the housing crisis that will funnel $80 million to provide new mortgages or mortgage relief to eligible consumers as well as help finance affordable housing.

The former treasurer of an Oklahoma City homeowners association has been charged with eight felony counts of embezzlement.

Wayne Francis, the lawyer and real estate speculator captured while hiding in a Connecticut hotel room over the holiday weekend, was presented in court Tuesday on a larceny charge and held on a $2 million bond.

Three former Nomura Holdings mortgage-bond traders accused of cheating their customers called no witnesses in their defense against fraud charges, betting that prosecutors’ evidence is too weak to convict them.

Auditors performing a review of Ocwen Financial padded time sheets and claimed excessive and improper expenses, including lengthy travel and meals at strip clubs and casinos, according to a lawsuit filed against Fidelity Information Services.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has signed a bill that will expedite foreclosures of vacant and abandoned properties this fall.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency has revived the idea of putting a question on the loan application asking consumers what language they want to communicate in.

A bill to overhaul the Dodd-Frank Act could get a vote in the full House as early as June 7.

In a rare move, the credit union regulator is asking the CFPB for exemptions for credit unions from expanded HMDA requirements and unfair and deceptive acts authority.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a civil suit against him in 2003. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation suspended his loan originator registration in 2010.