Mortgages

There is anticipation that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could release its debt collections proposal later this week.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed steps to ease Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requirements, just days after announcing it was retiring a platform to let users analyze raw mortgage data.

Here are seven startups that received multimillion-dollar venture capital investments in recent weeks to accelerate the development of banking products and services.

The Boston company gained the mortgage platform when it bought First Choice in 2017.

Provenance Blockchain, recently spun off from Mike Cagney's Figure Technologies, says it can help lenders trim 70% of mortgage settlement expenses through speedier processing and paperwork reduction.

New FHFA Director Mark Calabria isn't just charting a future for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but also fixing problems resulting from the "qualified mortgage" exemption for the GSEs and taking a "deep dive" into problems in the mortgage servicing market.

The two banks’ CEOs used a public hearing to argue their merger will be a boon for underserved markets. But other speakers warned that bank consolidation hurts communities.

Credit union share of the credit card market is at a record high but there are concerns that this debt could begin to sour if the economy turns.

Blue Lion Capital, which has been critical of the Seattle company in recent years, has nominated two individuals to become directors.

Change in strategy to lure new customers; new FHFA director wants to make Fannie, Freddie “stronger, healthier."

The bank is expecting to benefit from the discount airline's first flights to the Aloha State even as a white-hot local housing market starts to cool.

On Dec. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

On Dec. 31, 2018. Dollars in thousands.

The Trump administration is cracking down on national affordable housing programs because of concern over growing risk to the government's almost $1.3 trillion portfolio of federally insured mortgages.

Tens of millions of dollars of M&A costs and a decline in mortgage activity offset higher loan income in the first quarter at the two banks, which also offered a timeline for their rebranding and shareholder votes.

CUNA Mutual Group's February trends report showed that growth in auto loans, mortgages and membership had slowed.

The civil rights activist Jesse Jackson is pushing a proposal that the billions banks have paid in fines be given to Americans who lost homes or suffered in other ways during the financial crisis.

Adolfo Marzol, who has served as an adviser to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, will now report to the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The bank’s CFO says it has enough liquidity to meet loan demand in the short term, but how long can it keep its loan-to-deposit ratio below 100%?

The new head of the agency regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be at the forefront of reforming the housing finance system.