With the high court declining Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac shareholders’ petition for a writ of certiorari, it’s hard to see what legal avenues are still open to these aggrieved investors.

The mortgage servicer reached a relatively modest settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office to resolve alleged violations of mortgage servicing and debt collection regulations.

The consent order covers unfair and deceptive acts and practices in mortgage servicing, auto loan servicing and maintenance of deposit accounts.

Sprout Mortgage, which closed its doors in July, is facing at least four lawsuits from jilted business partners.

No secret here: Nonbank mortgage companies are living off their mortgage servicing rights during the industry’s sizable downturn. How much longer can it last? Hard to say, but Fitch has some concerns.

A deadlocked jury means the GSE shareholder lawsuit is probably destined for a new trial. But it will likely be in the same courtroom.

The lender is in talks with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to resolve several possible violations in its auto lending, mortgage lending and consumer deposit programs. Wells already holds the record for the highest fine issued in connection with a CFPB enforcement action.

After years of court maneuvers, the most prominent of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac shareholder lawsuits finally went to trial. Now it’s in the hands of a jury.

In what is likely to be the last legal wranglings in Fairholme v. FHFA before its long-awaited jury trial begins, Judge Lamberth dealt Fannie/Freddie shareholders a modest defeat.

The CFPB’s 2020 rule, exempting some institutions from Home Mortgage Disclosure Act reporting, was found to be arbitrary and capricious by the D.C. District Court.