Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 23.

Santander Bank's U.S. unit will be eliminating 80 mortgage-related positions as it withdraws from the third-party origination sales channel and refocuses on producing home loans through its branch network.

The agency says the "disparate impact" standard needs to be amended to align with a recent Supreme Court ruling. But consumer advocates say the change would make it more difficult for borrowers to allege discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 16.

National Mortgage News is now accepting nominations for its second annual Best Mortgage Companies to Work For program.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 9.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Aug. 2.

Under a proposal yet to be officially unveiled, plaintiffs relying on the so-called “disparate impact” doctrine would have to show a more direct link between a lender’s policy and discriminatory effect.

Eric Blankenstein, now at HUD, is under fire for asking a subordinate to defend him after it was revealed he wrote racially charged blogs 14 years earlier.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 26.

The bill, similar to legislation that passed the chamber last year, would permit the inclusion of items such as rent and telecom payments to help consumers build their credit profiles.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 19.

Quicken Loans Inc.'s biggest quarter to date means more jobs in Detroit.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 12.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending July 5

The CFPB did not file any fair-lending enforcement actions in the 2018 fiscal year and did not refer any Equal Credit Opportunity Act violations to the Department of Justice.

Mortgage industry hiring and new job appointments for the week ending June 28.

After years of largely standing on the sidelines, lawmakers are taking a closer look at whether algorithms used by banks and fintechs to make lending decisions could make discrimination worse instead of better.

After hiring half the laid-off staff from Live Well Financial, Open Mortgage plans to engineer a careful transition to operating as a larger-scale business.

Blend, a mortgage technology firm that named former Fannie Mae CEO Tim Mayopoulos its president early this year, has raised $130 million in Series E funding for an expansion.