The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced it is ordering Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) to pay a $12 million penalty for running afoul of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by submitting false mortgage lending information to the federal...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against Freedom Mortgage Corp. that alleged its mortgage loan data that was “riddled with errors” and put the Boca Raton, Florida-based company in violation of both the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)...
Closing costs and monthly mortgage payments spiked last year while Black and Hispanic buyers faced higher levels of denial on home loans, according to the new report “Data Point: 2022 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends,” published by the Consumer Financial Protection...
Fifteen years ago, in mid-September, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial system crashed. Troubles in the U.S. mortgage market infected the entire globe, and American families and businesses lost trillions of dollars and experienced an incalculable level of...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a guidance related to legal requirements that lenders must follow when using artificial intelligence (AI) and other complex models. The CFPB noted that creditors often use complex algorithms with large...