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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is implementing reforms to its reverse mortgage program and providing more counseling resources for seniors who are considering the product, Secretary Ben Carson said Monday.

Navient and Social Finance are kicking off what’s expected to be a busy second half for student loan securitization with two deals totaling nearly $1.5 billion.

While some policymakers are open to accommodating fintech companies with looser oversight compared with banks, the New York State superintendent is unapologetic about her tough approach.

Property Assessed Clean Energy loans can no longer be offered in unincorporated areas of Kern County, Calif. The controversial loans, meant to promote energy efficiency, began in California and are now offered in a number of states.

President Trump will nominate Randal Quarles as the Federal Reserve's vice chairman of supervision, the top bank regulatory post at the central bank, according to an announcement by the White House late Monday.

That was an increase of more than $5 billion, or 30%, from May's total, according to Thomson Reuters LPC, though it fell short of refinancing/reset activity, which rebounded to more than $19 billion.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's final rule to formalize guidance on a number of TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures compliance points omits an originally proposed fix for the so-called black hole that's created when a mortgage closing is delayed.

A new report from the American Bankers Association reinforces existing concerns about the ability of U.S. consumers to manage all of their debts.

With risk premiums on collateralized loan obligations at or near their tightest levels since the financial crisis, there may be nowhere to go but out, according to Wells Fargo Securities.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency made just incremental changes to two of the seven affordable housing benchmarks.

The Blackstone Group is tapping the commercial mortgage bond market to help finance the purchase of 11 multifamily properties from IMT Capital, according to Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Synchrony Financial and Alliance Data Systems are particularly vulnerable to recent shifts in Americans’ shopping habits, according to new research from Moody’s Investors Service.

The Senate is set to begin teeing up housing finance reform discussions at a Banking Committee hearing on Thursday, but many are skeptical that Congress will be able to succeed where it has failed in the past.

Sponsoring securitizations of the loans funded on its platform will give LendingClub more control over its reputation in the market and make it less beholden to direct loan buyers.

Canadian officials are working to slow a rapid rise in home prices that's being attributed to tight inventory levels in the country's largest cities and is threatening to create a housing bubble.

The National Association of Home Builders is objecting to a measure that would impose a surcharge on National Flood Insurance Program policies for newly constructed homes.

Over 45% of the borrowers the collateral pool have FICO scores above 760, compared with just 36.42% in the marketplace lender's most recent transaction, completed in May.

American International Group is accessing the securitized market through a Credit Suisse deal backed by loans that were generally originated less than a year after TRID.

CLO managers who accept lower interest payments on loans risk running afoul of deal covenants; but if they take their money back, there are few attractive options for putting it back to work

The office market in Arlington, Virginia has taken a big hit from cutbacks at the Department of Defense, but Goldman Sachs is making a sizable bet on a comeback.