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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday announced the finalization of a rule proposed in May that would allow companies that limit consumer data-sharing to post privacy notices online instead of delivering them individually. Financial institutions can now post privacy ...

Many private student loan borrowers are being driven into default due to a lack of information and affordable loan modification options, according to a report released Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The report analyzed more than 5,300 private student loan ...

Foreclosure filings, which include default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions, inched upward nationwide in the third quarter despite dropping to their lowest level in eight years in September, according to RealtyTrac's Q3 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report released today. More ...

A total of 811 U.S. county housing markets, or 52 percent, were rated as "better off" than they were two years ago, compared to only 176 markets, or 11 percent, categorized as "worse off," according to RealtyTrac's 2014 Election Housing Scorecard released on ...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported there were 4.8 million job openings nationwide on the last business day in August, which was the highest level of job openings since January 2001. The number of job openings for August is an increase from ...

Now that the overall economy is on more solid ground, Wells Fargo economists suggest that housing may soon follow in its footsteps, according to Wells Fargo's Housing Chartbook for October 2014. The second quarter real GDP growth was recently revised to a ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has reached a record $5 million settlement with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, the largest provider of residential mortgage loans in the nation, to resolve allegations that Wells Fargo discriminated against women who were either ...

Nearly half of the mortgages that were in foreclosure in December 2013 were still in foreclosure as of the end of August, according to the Black Knight Financial Services August Mortgage Monitor released earlier in the week. Black Knight reported that even though ...

Nationwide foreclosures are down both monthly and annually, but mortgage loan delinquencies are up month-over-month in August, according to the Black Knight Financial Services Mortgage Monitor released earlier in the week. In its August 2014 data summary included in the ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced on Monday a 60-day extension for the comment period for proposed rule to revise membership requirements for Federal Home Loan Banks back in September. The comment period which was set to end on November 12, 2014, which is 60 ...