Efforts by Congressional Republicans to expand exemptions to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data collection and reporting requirements may or may not succeed. But any lender or aggregator seeking to sell eligible mortgages to the government-sponsored enterprises will still have to get with the program. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to tweak their systems and processes to accommodate the new mandates, scheduled to kick in Jan. 1 ...

As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders inch closer to having hundreds of government documents released in pending shareholder lawsuits surrounding the conservatorship and preferred stock purchase agreement, they are more confident the court will rule in their favor. In the latest development in Fairholme Funds v. the United States, Federal Claims Court Judge Margaret Sweeney last week granted a motion to compel the disclosure of documents filed over the summer by ...

A previously announced legal settlement with Royal Bank of Scotland will soon hit the books...

While the pilot is limited to New Hampshire home buyers, Fannie thinks the pilot could open the door to other states doing something similar…

A Freddie spokesman noted: “We take cyber-security seriously as it relates to every aspect of our business.”

Gripes to the bureau leapt by 53.4 percent on a sequential basis…

Overall, hackers stole financial information on roughly 140 million American consumers…

CIT Group will take a charge of up to $50 million on the sale of Financial Freedom...

The flow of home loans for first-time buyers was up a robust 24.7 percent on a sequential basis…

The plaintiffs have long argued that the government is trying to keep roughly 1,500 documents hidden under the deliberative process and bank examination privileges.