Regulation

The mortgage industry will be looking for answers when Treasury and HUD unveil reports on housing finance reform, but the Trump administration’s plans could also raise a whole new host of questions.

Community banks and tech companies that are happy the central bank is building a next-generation system are not as pleased with its four- to five-year timeline. But big banks see the slow rollout as an opportunity to expand their own instant payment network.

New unit will work with foreign governments; standards too soft on those without conventional paychecks.

Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina called for the panel to hold a hearing on what he termed the danger that the Federal Reserve will meddle in the 2020 presidential election.

The Treasury’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac left legacy shareholders holding the bag.

Though advocates and industry are rarely aligned, they are starting to coalesce around a plan that would call for the elimination of the CFPB’s 43% debt-to-income limit as part of its qualified mortgage rule.

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With lawmakers unlikely to act in the near future to ease financial institutions' regulatory burden, new technologies could be the solution to credit unions’ AML woes.

When lawmakers return from their August recess, a host of unresolved financial policy issues — from marijuana banking to anti-money-laundering rule — will greet them.

Wisconsin Republican Sean Duffy routinely pushed to restructure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and authored a bill to reform the flood insurance program.