The Mortgage Bankers Association supports many of the housing-related provisions included in the bill proposed last week by Senate Republicans.

There’s some bipartisan support in Congress to establish a tax credit for home renovations in an effort to improve the supply of homes for sale.

Industry insiders push the National Directory of New Hires as an alternative to a current process involving the IRS as a way to verify income and employment while expanding the digitization of the mortgage process.

Bill to limit trigger leads passes in House; Fannie economists see higher interest rates; home prices decline in April; HUD on the move; FHFA directs GSEs to propose using cryptocurrency in calculations for mortgage applicant’s reserves.

The Senate parliamentarian has advised Republicans that they cannot use the budget reconciliation process to eliminate the CFPB’s funding from the Federal Reserve.

Trade groups representing mortgage companies pressed the CFPB to retain some mortgage servicing standards temporarily established during the pandemic.

CSBS is working on prudential standards for nonbank servicers, a framework for safeguarding sensitive information at nonbanks, and standards to modernize supervision and regulation of money transmitters.

A district court determined that granting a motion to vacate based on the new arguments advanced by the CFPB would “be to undermine the finality of judgments.”

The financial services industry can move forward with open banking efforts even without standards established by the CFPB, according to industry experts.

Some of the bureau’s new enforcement and supervision priorities are lacking alignment, according to former CFPB executives.