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The high court will decide how much latitude a president has to fire the director of an independent agency.

In her second day of congressional testimony, Kathy Kraninger took heat from Senate Democrats for weighing in on constitutional questions about her agency and for her enforcement track record.

While demand is strong and loan performance generally remains solid, the prevalence of longer loan terms has sparked concern that losses will eventually spike.

CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger faced a barrage of questions from Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee over why the agency has not demanded refunds for consumers in recent settlements.

Executives sent a letter to the federal banking regulators last month expressing concern that an alternative to the London interbank offered rate could limit credit availability.

The $50.4 million participation is the largest loan in UBS' next $807.3 million commercial mortgage securitization.

A list of upcoming cases published by the high court did not include a challenge to the bureau's constitutionality, but the justices could still decide to review it at a later date.

The $5 billion financing package may also include around $1 billion of secured debt that would be sold to investors, as well as about $1.7 billion in letters of credit that would be split among participating banks

Freddie Mac is postponing the date it will make using its Servicing Gateway platform mandatory, and adding new requirements related to chargeoffs and interactions with document custodians.

The company has rolled out an online platform for firms considering marketplace loans as an asset class.

A year after Fannie Mae launched its first credit-risk transfer securitization using a real estate mortgage investment conduit, Freddie is now electing to also opt for a REMIC format in offloading the credit risk to private investors.

The developer of the newly constructed Washington, D.C., headquarters for Fannie Mae is securitizing part of its $525 million, 10-year mortgage through a single-asset, mortgage-backed transaction.

The reforms will result in significant changes to the proprietary trading ban first proposed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and mandated in the Dodd-Frank Act.

The two Democrats waded into a court battle over the president's ability to fire a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The end of the qualified mortgage patch should further accelerate non-QM origination growth, but is the mortgage industry ready?

The Federal Housing Administration chief has already been serving as the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

BX Commercial Mortgage Trust 2019-XL, via Citigroup, features 11 note classes backed by a floating-rate, first-lien mortgage on 406 Blackstone-owned properties with a tenant roster of over 2,000 lessees — including Home Depot, UPS, FedEx and Amazon.

The industry had welcomed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plan allowing debt collectors to use electronic communication, but some worry about the effect of a court decision concerning email correspondence.

Allowing the mortgage giants to retain profits resolves a short-term capital shortfall, but how much capital they would need after exiting conservatorship is still the bigger question.

The $533 million Transportation Equipment Trust (TFET) 2019-1 is the first-ever transport finance business securitization serviced and sponsored by BMO Harris' commercial bank, which picked up the business from GE Capital in 2015.