Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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House Financial Services Committee Chair Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., told Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg to make himself available for a June 12 hearing on the agency's workplace culture.
May 23 -
Companies are seeing evidence of income falsification, which previous research shows is the most common type of fraud or defect risk.
May 23 -
All lenders experiencing system breaches must report the incidents within 12 hours of detection, the administration announced.
May 23 -
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr Monday spoke at length about efforts to enhance banks' liquidity and long-term debt positions after last year's bank failures while saying little about the capital hikes in the embattled interagency Basel III endgame proposal.
May 20 -
Originators misled VA refinance applicants into believing they could skip two months of mortgage payments, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said.
May 20 -
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Friday that the agency will be moving forward with rules and enforcement actions after the defeat of a Supreme Court challenge to the agency's constitutionality.
May 17 -
The House Financial Services Committee passed eleven bills, including a Democratic-sponsored bill on homeless veteran housing and a Republican-led package on bank regulation.
May 17 -
The Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday morning that was unequivocal in its view that Congress is constitutionally empowered to fund agencies with open-ended and indirect funding mechanisms, overruling a 5th Circuit opinion from 2022 that found that executive branches must be subject to direct Congressional appropriations.
May 16 -
Home lenders are taking a hard look at fulfillment compensation due to persistent profitability strains while keeping in mind growing compliance considerations.
May 14 -
Rocket Mortgage entered into an agreement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and will pay the consumers $65,000 to resolve the matter.
May 13 -
The new Financial Stability Oversight Council report also recommends an expanded Ginnie Mae PTAP facility and an industry-funded liquidity resource.
May 10 -
The agreements at the heart of the hearing did not cover the one reached with the National Association of Realtors or those people that only bought homes.
May 9 -
The lender lost a battle to toss the lawsuit, but convinced a judge to compel the regulator to produce data on its competitors.
May 9 -
A group of plaintiffs in another action against the National Association of Realtors and three franchisors claimed harm if the May 9 final settlement hearing took place.
May 8 -
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook highlighted concerns over private credit growth, commercial real estate distress and escalating cyber threats in remarks on financial stability at the Brookings Institution Wednesday.
May 8 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there have been "no decisions" on the controversial capital reform plan, but banks and others who have criticized the proposal are eager for an indication about what's next.
May 7 -
What ultimately keeps the balance-sheet reduction going, the bank said, is the fact that the Federal Reserve will likely be undeterred by any brief spikes in a key overnight funding benchmark — the rate on overnight repurchase agreements.
May 6 -
New notices pointed out how large learning models could lead real estate businesses to unintentionally violate the Fair Housing Act in a marketing campaign.
May 3 -
The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a 30-page guidebook on managing affiliate risks. The report builds on formal guidance issued last year.
May 3 -
In talks with OCC officials, "it became obvious that we would not gain near-term approval given their recent experience with multifamily and CRE positions," FirstSun CEO Neal Arnold says. The companies announced other revisions to their deal, too.
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