Compliance & Regulation

The government-sponsored enterprise on Tuesday priced its fifth Connecticut Avenue Securities transaction this year, making further progress in supporting the market it left during the Trump era.

The number of suspicious activity reports involving cryptocurrency topped 90,000 in 2021, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The reason for the uptick may be that crypto is becoming more mainstream.

The government-sponsored enterprise has already done twice as many of these deals as it did during all of 2021.

Moving towards bank-like capital standards for all independent mortgage banks that sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could limit consumer access to mortgage credit, writes Community Home Lenders Association executive director Scott Olson.

As risk management becomes a major driver for banks, we discuss how to approach these questions in a different way

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal split hairs and said each allegation must be examined to see whether it was not covered by the National Mortgage Settlement.

New York Fed researchers found that banks operating in areas hit by tornadoes, floods and other calamities weren’t financially hurt by those disasters. That surprising result comes with significant caveats, however.

The new futures contracts can be used to mitigate risk on both the origination pipeline and the mortgage servicing portfolio.

Home prices have increased at their fastest rate since the mid-2000s housing boom and driven skyrocketing inflation. Fed Gov. Christopher Waller says lenders are better prepared for a shock than in 2007 but still need to be monitored — especially nonbank lenders.

An investor alleged the independent mortgage bank failed to disclose the revenue hit from a refinance dip at the time of its initial public offering.