The newly empowered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is wasting no time jumping into its oversight of mortgage origination practices and procedures at banks and nonbanks alike, issuing a set of M.O. examination procedures that will be used to put mortgage lenders and brokers under a compliance magnifying lens. But one industry attorney warns that in doing so, the CFPB has tilted the playing field against nonbank mortgage originators. CFPB Director Richard Cordray said the CFPB’s supervision of nonbank mortgage originators will “illuminate the entire marketplace by making nonbanks play by ...
The creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund could grease the skids for an end to the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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