Compliance & Regulation

The government-sponsored enterprise also unveiled two new tranche slices for investors to purchase.

Is Bitcoin at a "tipping point" and could it one day be the currency of choice for trade? The future for digital currencies can be bright, but there are still risks involved. In this session join Yan Zhao, President of NYDIG as she explores: (1) the overall discussion of how Bitcoin is experiencing wider adoption in the traditional finance world, and why that is; (2) Recent partnerships in the financial sector and how they've helped evolve the space; and (3) how and why organization are embedding Bitcoin in various financial services products like lending, payroll, banking, and investing.

The North Carolina company has estimated the degree of exposure to flooding and hurricanes that exists in its mortgage and commercial loan books and has tallied its losses from severe storm damage in recent years. It’s one of a few regional banks to publish assessments based on the criteria of a global task force.

The federal sentencing of the onetime president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, Ron McCord, follows a guilty plea and admissions related to improprieties in warehouse lending and servicing arrangements.

Last week, the world of mortgage servicing got an unpleasant surprise. Cenlar FSB, the nation’s largest subservicer of residential mortgages, was hit with a consent order by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency alleging “unsafe and unsound” banking practices.

The agency said the risk management program for Cenlar FSB, which performs servicing functions for financial institution clients, was inadequate for the bank's size.

The reception in the market to structured single-family CRTs' return at the government-sponsored enterprise was strong enough for it to plan to follow up this transaction with another one next month.

The various bank and wire fraud charges in a federal indictment include conspiracy to defraud Quicken Loans (now Rocket Mortgage) for $1.3 million.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement. Risk management is a crucial part of that plan and how wealth managers can bring value to clients. In this session Michael Moriarty, Chief Investment of Wealthspire and Rick Bookstaber, Founder & Head of Risk of Fabric will discuss how investors and markets are changing and how advisors can position themselves to excel in this new landscape.

The filing by Tamara Richards also accused the founder and other execs of encouraging a "frat house" environment that mistreated women.