The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has concluded a 2024 action it took against nonbank mortgage company Fay Servicing under a former director in line with a broader rollback of enforcement under new leadership. “The bureau waives any alleged noncompliance by Fay Servicing with the consent order,” read an order that Russell Vought, the CFPB’s current […]
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U.S. Federal Housing Director Bill Pulte is asking Congress to investigate Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in a stark escalation of the official’s campaign against the central bank head. In a statement posted to X on Wednesday, the chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cited Powell’s statements in a recent Senate committee appearance as
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Adobe Stock The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has scrapped a $95 million settlement with Navy Federal Credit Union, freeing the nation’s largest credit union from paying a $15 million fine and from refunding $80 million to service members who were illegally overcharged overdraft fees. Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought on Monday terminated the consent order
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The Mortgage Bankers Association was pleased the Senate version of the reconciliation bill keeps many of its priorities in place, while taking out the so-called revenge tax. However, the bill does differ from the House of Representatives version and the two need to conform before it can go to President Trump for signature. Furthermore, because
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Mortgage lenders welcomed the rescissions the Department of Housing and Urban Development made to 12 Federal Housing Administration policies, noting they would make the program more attractive for participants. They could even be a starting point for bringing banks back as originators in this government-insured program. These revisions might affect other segments of the housing
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Bloomberg News The Financial Technology Association filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court late Sunday, defending a final rule on consumer financial data rights that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Trump administration refused to uphold. The FTA said in a court filing that consumers cannot share their data without easy access
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Bloomberg News Most of the country’s largest banks are poised to see flat or lower capital requirements next year after performing well in this year’s Federal Reserve stress test, but ongoing efforts to reform its annual exam practices could complicate how much lower those requirements will ultimately be. Overall, banks registered their best performance since
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The potential for mortgage lending fraud accelerated over the past year, with risk related to undisclosed transaction details driving much of the surge, according to Cotality. In its latest report, the real estate data platform found fraud risk was up 7.3% year over year in the first quarter. Risk lessened over time, though, coming in
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank will consider a Basel III endgame proposal — in addition to the nascent leverage ratio proposal being unveiled later in the day — as part of bank regulators’ deregulation push during the Trump administration. Powell, speaking before
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In the nearly five years since they were first proposed, only 11 states have fully adopted the Conference of State Bank Supervisors’ prudential standards for nonbank mortgage servicers. Yet because of multistate examinations, these rules apply to 99% of nondepository mortgage servicers. The standards first went out for comment in October 2020, with 17 organizations
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