Cheyenne Hopkins

For the second year in a row, total enforcement actions reached a record high, jumping 21% in 2010, an increase attributed to a continued heightened focus on capital and ...

While many Republicans and Democrats tag the government's loan mod program a failure, the two sides disagree on what to do about it. Observers say it likely won't matter, anyway.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke charts the Super Bowl's impact on GDP; a Financial Services Committee member declares bankruptcy; CFPB unveils a new Web site; and more.

The Congressional Oversight Panel will hold a hearing with regulators Friday about the state of the commercial real estate market.

Despite an attempt in Dodd-Frank to preserve thrift institutions, a recent report on the elimination of the OTS is bolstering the view that the charter will exist in name only.

The Treasury Department announced on Wednesday that Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincinnati, Ohio, has fully repaid its $3.4 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds.

The Treasury Department reported Monday that its federal program for preventing foreclosures advanced 20,000 loan modifications in December, while the number of re-defaults continued to rise.

Federal bank regulators opened the initial registration period Monday for originators to sign up with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry.

The president's chief economic adviser does some show business with actor Rob Lowe; 600,000 square feet of new office space for the OCC/OTS; and more.

The chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and his colleagues said Treasury's program to help troubled borrowers avoid foreclosure has been a bust.

The chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and his colleagues said Treasury's program to help troubled borrowers avoid foreclosure has been a bust.

After more than 18 months of research and investigation, the report heralded as the definitive look back at the 2008 turmoil proved anticlimactic.

The year's first House Financial Services Committee hearing showed the panel's handling of banking-related legislation in the new Congress might prove just as partisan as the last.

A Treasury official cut mortgage bankers some slack after facing much criticism; House Democrats announced its members for the House Financial Services Committee; and more

The biggest obstacle to reforming mortgage servicing may be that regulators cannot agree on the proper vehicle for it.

The biggest obstacle to reforming mortgage servicing may be that regulators cannot agree on the proper vehicle for it.

The debate over where and how regulators should establish national servicing standards came to a head on Wednesday.

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair warned Wednesday that regulators must add new servicing standards to a pending risk retention rule to ensure there is not a double dip in the U.S. housing market.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency confirmed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are exploring changes to mortgage servicer compensation, and said implementation is unlikely before the summer of 2012.

Although the Financial Stability Oversight Council released studies and proposals on a host of critical topics, including implementation of the Volcker Rule and identification of systemically important nonbanks, the raft of documents gave little sense of what the final regulations on such issues would look like.