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The Federal Housing Finance Agency is considering reforms to force-placed insurance aimed at giving the public a better deal. So why isn't it letting the public in on its planning?
June 10 -
The National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program has sparked a major outcry over phone monitoring, but the less-publicized government accumulation of credit card and other payments data can provide far more granular intelligence, according to payments experts.
June 10 -
Pennsylvania Dutch country could get the first de novo bank to open in the U.S. in more than two years.
June 10 -
The banking unit of FNB United in Asheboro, N.C., has been freed from a regulatory order and has completed its integration of the Bank of Granite.
June 10 -
The constant pillorying of banks can hardly inspire public confidence in them. Regulators should focus, instead, on peer comparisons and the encouragement of effective policies and procedures.
June 10
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In two closely watched cases, the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that creditors using an electronic mortgage registry don't have to publicly record the ownership history of a trust deed to take advantage of the nonjudicial foreclosure process the state's legislature created in 1959.
June 10 -
After years of housing finance reform efforts languishing in Congress, a draft bill by Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. and Mark Warner, D-Va., appears poised to become the catalyst for finally moving ahead on a way to overhaul Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
June 7 -
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the Federal Housing Finance Agency's objection to certain short sales designed to keep original borrowers in their homes is misguided.
June 7 -
Florida's attorney general has threatened to sue Bank of America for violating the national mortgage settlement.
June 7
