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The combined refinance and purchase total was nearly double the average quarterly volume logged before the pandemic, the company said in its third-quarter earnings call.

The bureau’s new director named former Obama administration officials Lorelei Salas and Eric Halperin, respectively, as the heads of supervision policy and enforcement.

With two new prohibitions, the total now stands at 22 for the year so far.

The bank tapped Antony Stephen, former head of Amazon Payments Europe, to oversee its move into small buy now/pay later loans. It is also reportedly seeking a partnership with the e-commerce giant in the U.K.

The Texas bank, which has spent six years reducing its exposure to fossil fuel companies, aims to bottom out at around 5% of its total loan portfolio.

Rising debt-to-income ratios were behind almost a third of refinance rejections among those 65 and older, according to an analysis from the Urban Institute.

The Financial Stability Oversight Council’s report on climate risk in the financial sector is a backdoor attempt to implement the Green New Deal, a Republican member of the House Financial Services Committee writes.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell called Sherrod Brown, the head of the Senate panel that oversees the central bank, this week to discuss Powell’s sweeping proposal to limit securities trading by senior Fed officials, as well as Brown’s new legislation on the subject.

Fifty-three percent of community bank executives who participated in a recent survey said they’d spurn a takeover offer by a credit union, even if it was the highest bid. The findings underscore the rivalry between the two sectors at a time of rising consolidation.