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If TAG is allowed to expire at yearend, it could spur community banks looking for extra liquidity to turn back to FHLB advances, which are at their lowest point in a decade.

The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association has raised the possibility of creating a hybrid reverse mortgage loan with members of the White House staff, Peter Bell, its president and CEO told attendees at the group's eastern regional meeting in New York.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has ordered AmericaHomeKey, Inc., to immediately stop making FHA-insured mortgages and fined the Dallas-based lender $268,000.

The House voted Monday to pass a bipartisan bill that would expand protections for privileged information that financial institutions share with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The banking industry's longtime nemesis, Sen. Richard Durbin, is now pushing to allow borrowers to discharge private student loans in bankruptcy.

Regulators have lifted an informal agreement with the banking unit of MainSource Financial Group (MSFG) in Greensburg, Ind.

Wells Fargo made repeated promises in the past six months to turn over documents and emails to the Securities and Exchange Commission but repeatedly failed to do so, according to a complaint filed in federal court on Friday.

WASHINGTON — Banking regulators said Monday they are looking for feedback on proposed changes to guidance issued in 2001 on leveraged finance.

The 2009 Card Act required lenders to "consider" customers' "ability to pay" before granting credit on cards.

Unobtrusive until now, a set of unrelated security requirements is about to become pretty unpopular, and costly.