Google is partnering with mortgage tech vendor Roostify as it launches Lending DocAI, a digital front-end product. Mortgage tech watchers wonder just how big the search engine giant might become in mortgages.
A last-minute injunction secured by consumer groups on Sunday has halted HUD’s revised disparate-impact rule, which makes it harder to prove discrimination.
The second and third quarters rank among the most profitable for the sector, though merger activity and changing mortgage strategies can make comparisons to prior periods tricky...
The new expiration date will be tied to the mandatory compliance date for the revised general QM rule, or when the GSEs exit conservatorships, whichever comes first.
The CFPB has created a new office within the supervision, enforcement and fair lending division to assign cases to the enforcement office. Critics say the change will weaken the bureau’s enforcement power.
The Federal Reserve last month issued its own plan to modernize the decades-old anti-redlining law: a metrics-based approach that would separately evaluate retail lending and community development financing.
Ocwen Financial has agreed to pay $5.2 million to Florida regulators to settle allegations it engaged in abusive servicing practices. A similar case filed by the CFPB against the nonbank is pending.