In settling, Wells – the nation’s largest home lender and servicer – did not admit any liability.

It's unclear whether the proposed increase in VA home loan fees would be used to fund an expected increase in veteran health-care costs…

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, is none too thrilled with plans by the Treasury Department and Comptroller of the Currency to open up federal banking charters to fintech firms.

The denial rate on mortgage applications calculated solely from Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data provides a misleading measure of credit availability, according to industry analysts. Analysts from the Urban Institute and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. authored a paper suggesting that the attributes of loan applicants should be taken into consideration when determining denial rates. “Higher denial rates can be the result of either a tighter credit environment or an increase in ...

There are dozens of residential lenders that use the phrase “fintech” to describe their activities, but whether they will file to become a depository is a different matter.

Fairholme: “Fund performance was disappointing in the first half mostly due to the decline in the preferred shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…”

The report makes more than 80 recommendations related to fintech and nonbank financial policy.

Roughly 59.8 percent of the reviewed loans were initially deemed unacceptable.

SG’s Justin Mahoney estimated that lenders participating in the panel were backed by $10 billion of capital aimed at expanded-credit products…

A prediction: “Watch for an end to the GSE conservatorships under a Republican Director at the FHFA...