Compliance & Regulation

Former Flagstar CEO Alessandro DiNello, who had been New York Community's nonexecutive chairman, was named executive chairman after the Long Island bank's stock price fell by more than 59% in a week. New York Community also issued updates on both its deposit situation and its search for a new chief risk officer.

Strategies used to falsify identities and property ownership highlight a public assistance vulnerability that could have implications for the mortgage industry.

The number of homeowners spending more than 30% of income on housing costs jumped 18% from pre-pandemic 2019, according to a new Harvard analysis.

A common concern in housing finance reactions has been the lack of accommodation for strategies routinely used to manage credit, rate and liquidity exposures.

The company has linked tradeline information to lien data in ways designed to help mortgage portfolio managers keep pace with property values as they change.

FHA-insured and Department of Veterans Affairs-guaranteed mortgages bear watching next year, according to Intercontinental Exchange.

The American Bankers Association requested that President Joe Biden tell Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to study the impact of more robust bank regulation.

The lawsuit accuses Navy Federal of violating the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act after a CNN report that the lender approved a lower percentage of Black and Latino mortgage applicants.

Remote work trends and high interest rates have substantially reduced the values of U.S. office buildings. A new academic paper estimates the extent of the deterioration, suggesting that there is perhaps more stress ahead for banks than is widely anticipated.

At least 400 loan officers working for Bank of America violated the requirements of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act by failing to collect the race, ethnicity and sex of mortgage applicants and then falsely reporting that the applicants had chosen not to respond, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.