Technology

Post-crisis measures made it harder for rogue borrowers and employees to commit fraud. Now, a new threat has emerged from scammers posing as title agents, real estate professionals and more.

Private-label versions of the Federal Housing Administration's Home Equity Conversion Mortgage have spread to the point where a widely-used loan origination system has added technology to handle the product.

Tech-focused startups are knocking on the door of a $15 billion industry that's dominated by just four companies: Title insurance.

Several states pledged to compensate for a slowdown in enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Mick Mulvaney, but their efforts have been complicated by tight budgets and doubts over whether such initiatives are necessary.

Computershare Loan Services has agreed to acquire a loan fulfillment and secondary marketing unit owned by LenderLive Holdings in order to broaden its services along the full mortgage lifecycle.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development took the very rare step of filing a secretary-initiated fair housing complaint — only three were made in the last two fiscal years — against Facebook.

The U.S. is siding with fair housing groups that claim Facebook's ad targeting tools permit discrimination based on sex, religion, familial status and national origin.

Credit Karma is diving into the mortgage industry with a plan to acquire digital mortgage startup Approved, a provider of consumer-facing online point of sale technology.

The CFPB made changes to a rule that allows financial firms to be exempt from sending annual privacy notices to customers if they meet certain conditions.

Capital One's dispute with Plaid raised questions about the ability of banks and aggregators to work together. But the end of that fight, and Capital One's deal with Finicity, show common ground can be reached — eventually.