The Trump administration appears set to name an experienced Washington regulator to take over the top post at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the process is fraught with challenges.

Residential firms looking to sell mortgage servicing rights are in a sweet spot right now. However...

HomeStreet restructured its mortgage business last year…

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

Barry Habib, who heads MBS Highway, believe that within two years, the U.S. will be in a recession...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Surely, conservatives are applauding the way Mulvaney is trying to remake the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Cordray was never popular in the mortgage industry because of all the regulations he heaped on lenders and servicers...