Fannie Mae has identified a significant number of appraisals conducted by unlicensed appraisers using stolen identities.

By automating its biennial review system, the FHLBank regulator has dramatically reduced the number of member institutions that are inadvertently omitted from community support reporting.

The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s prohibition on false, deceptive or misleading representations applies even if such representations are made unintentionally and unknowingly, the CFPB said in an amicus brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals.

The challenges borrowers of student loans face include long hold times on phone calls, delays in application processing and inaccurate billing statements.

Response Tree allegedly operated more than 50 websites that used deception and dark patterns to trick consumers into providing personal information that was sold to telemarketers.

The former FHFA director says Congress will never act, but that the GSEs should create subsidiaries, then complete an initial public offering to get out of government control.

Small depositories warn changes at the FHLBs could increase members’ costs and reduce access to FHLB funding. Worse, these changes could take place without formal rulemaking.

Conservatives argue that the government subsidy of the FHLBanks doesn’t support housing and mostly benefits large banks rather than homeowners.

Thousands of stakeholders responded to FHFA’s RFI on the prospect of the GSEs establishing tenant protections for the multifamily properties they back. Most respondents were tenants.

The limits on Fannie’s and Freddie’s annual investment in low-income housing tax credit programs has jumped from $850 million to $1 billion each.