The president's budget calls for eliminating the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution grant program, which often benefits poor and rural consumers in areas that Trump easily carried in the election.

Soaring home values have property taxes on the rise. Servicers must be vigilant about borrower payment shock that can add complexity to escrow services and portfolio management. Here's a look at the states with the largest tax hikes.

A foreclosure by Licking County on the basket-shaped headquarters of the Longaberger Co. is imminent

Bankers and housing advocates say many low-income housing projects simply won't get built if the White House and Congress move to eliminate two federal block grant programs.

Nationstar Mortgage agreed on Wednesday to pay $1.75 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for failing to accurately report home mortgage data that is used to identify discrimination.

HSBC has met the consumer relief requirements set out under the National Mortgage Settlement, according to the latest report from the settlement's monitor.

On the eve of delivering money to help flood victims rebuild their homes, the federal agency is demanding Louisiana repay $6.6 million because of sloppy handling of funds for building low- and moderate-income housing over the past decade.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Alpine Bank & Trust have reached an agreement to resolve claims that the lender discriminated against African-American and Hispanic mortgage applicants.

Republicans repeatedly claim that the Dodd-Frank Act has hurt consumers by raising costs and hampering credit availability. But the data doesn't back that up.

In his meeting with community bankers, President Trump openly pondered the fate of CFPB Director Richard Cordray with his advisers and appeared eager to quickly fix industry concerns through executive orders.

Most lenders' quality control headaches were triggered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Truth in Lending Act-Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act integrated disclosure rule.

The current partisan war over the Dodd-Frank Act is just one dispute in a broader ideological divide about the government’s role in industry.

Under the Trump administration, the challenge for the industry is to find the proper balance between supporting post-financial crisis regulations that have worked well and campaigning for reform efforts that have been ineffective.

With the new administration and eventual new leadership of the regulatory agencies, banks’ calculus that agreeing to consent orders is usually the right course is potentially changing.

A vote on a House plan to replace the Dodd-Frank Act may not happen as quickly as originally expected due to limited floor time and other legislative priorities, such as health care reform, that are likely to take precedent.

In President Trump’s first joint address to Congress, he listed several top priorities, including repealing Obamacare and enacting tax reform, but made no mention of reforming the Dodd-Frank Act.

The bank says it will push the rest of the industry to follow its lead and step up lobbying for policies that increase minority homeownership.

In an exclusive American Banker poll, bankers see President Trump as a positive force for the financial services industry and are optimistic his administration can deliver on CFPB reform and simpler capital rules.

As banking leaders gain a more substantial policymaking role, they will have a greater impact if they stake out a clear position in favor of regulations that protect investors and depositors.

President Trump signed an executive order Friday requiring every agency to establish a task force focused on eliminating unnecessary regulations.