Michael Chan, vice president of ComplianceEase, has come up with a check-list that should be part of every lender's due diligence effort.

It would appear that the GSE buyback scourge may be winding down. Meanwhile, Fannie Mae has egg on its face over someone it hired.

Lenders would be well served to periodically re-assess the fair lending impact of their policies especially in regard to the qualified mortgage rule.

Fannie Mae said that, assuming publication of the CFPB final rule comes in the fall, more information will be available later in 2013 on implementation plans.

The NAIHP is concerned that "responsible consumers" may have been "intentionally" knocked out of the QM box.”

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. would be prohibited from repudiating covered bonds when resolving a failed banking institution under the provisions of a controversial housing reform bill put...

House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-CA, sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director...

After roiling markets with unclear signals about when it will begin to taper asset purchases, the Federal Reserve returned to boilerplate guidance.

Congress passed legislation allowing HUD to reform the Home-Equity Conversion Mortgage program.

A Fannie SVP noted that the GSE's whole-loan conduit allowed 1,100 lenders to deliver loans to Fannie for cash in 2012.