Freddie Mac last week introduced a new product aimed at expanding mortgage lending for credit unions and other community borrowers. The secondary market giant said it will now buy loans under its Home Possible Neighborhood Solutions program with 100% loan-to-value ratios and with which the borrower is carrying a debt-to-income ratio of as much as 45%, up from the regular 38% ratio.
Fifteen banks have failed since November 2019, with the most recent one occurring on Jan. 30.
The Government Accountability Office was tasked with investigating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's stop-work order, but CFPB officials refused to meet with or provide information to Congress' investigative arm.
Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller said comments from banks and fintech firms reveal sharply different priorities in the creation of the central bank's proposed "skinny" master accounts.
Check fraud has risen 385% since the pandemic, with criminals using stolen mail and digital tools to deceive major financial institutions.
The activist investor HoldCo Asset Management said Monday that it doesn't plan to pursue proxy battles this spring at either Key or Eastern. It had been agitating publicly over the banks' M&A strategies.
Jack Dorsey's payments company also laid off employees early in 2025 and 2024 following a self-imposed employee cap of 12,000 in November 2023.
