Policy & Regulation

With policymakers focused on ending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s conservatorship, their regulator is reorganizing key units and adding staff to position itself for the long term.

The two agencies said they will exchange student loan complaint data after their information-sharing efforts had been in limbo for over two years.

In letters to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, six Democrats asked how the mortgage giants are factoring extreme weather into their risk modeling.

The regulator said the investment bank and financial services company will help in the process of strengthening Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s capital standing for their eventual exit from conservatorship.

The industry faces still competition for attention in Washington this week, but matters related to credit unions are still being discussed.

The U.S. banking system risks being left behind by the European Union and the United Kingdom when it comes to open banking.

A look back at CU Journal's latest special report on the challenges the industry could face in the year ahead.

The bank is offering big bonuses to hire new financial advisors; recent share repurchases have raised the cost of future rebuys.

The people of tiny Duncan, Ariz., have found creative ways to adapt to life in a banking desert, but their experience augurs a worrisome future for many other rural communities.

Now that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it will scrap an unpopular standard for so-called qualified mortgages, the big question is what will take its place.