The updated agenda is the CFPB’s first under Mulvaney’s leadership.

Originators also sold $483.13 billion of loans to unaffiliated buyers outside of the agency market…

A group of Democratic senators is asking the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney violated the Hatch Act. The acting director last month said to bankers that he “had a hierarchy” in his office in Congress and only talked to lobbyists who gave him financial donations when he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina. “It raises troubling questions about whether his statements ran afoul of the Hatch Act ...

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney, a vociferous critic of the consumer agency’s budget, is reportedly looking for ways to cut spending by tens of millions of dollars, including an option to move dozens of employees to the basement of its Washington headquarters. According to an internal cost-saving analysis obtained by Bloomberg News, Mulvaney’s top aides proposed to add 70 work spaces in the CFPB main building’s basement, which may save $16.6 million. Other ...

Total U.S. debt outstanding is just over $21 trillion. Prior to the financial crisis, U.S. mortgage debt was actually larger than Treasury debt...

The OCA consultation process was initiated in connection with an investigation by the Division of Enforcement that remains ongoing, the nonbank said.

Much of the product is projected to come from California, Florida and Texas.

Lenders estimated that ATR/QM added $139 per loan to their ongoing origination costs.

In the first quarter, 12.61 percent of purchase loans sold to the GSEs fell into the highest risk category…

Fannie Mae's Renee Schultz said the decision to offer property inspection waivers is probably the longest running pilot the GSE has ever had…