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Tuesday, July 21, 2015 marks the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. As Dodd-Frank turns five, congress members and industry leaders examine just how effective the reform act has been within the government agencies ...

The nation’s top eight banks will be held to minimum capital holdings or face stiff surcharges, according to a decision made by the Federal Reserve on Monday. The ruling establishes minimum holdings among what the Fed dubs global systemically important ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addressed the subject of the much-anticipated federal funds range increase in two separate Congressional hearings this week. Yellen said that more economic improvement, particularly in the labor market, is needed along with confidence that the ...

Fannie Mae announced its intention to auction three pools of residential single-family non-performing loans, the GSE's second-ever bulk NPL sale. This sale includes two larger pools and a Community Impact Pool, which is a smaller geographically-focused, high occupancy pool. Fannie Mae is ...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency demonstrated its progress toward the goal of helping distressed and at-risk families remain in their homes in the April 2015 Foreclosure Prevention Report released this week. More than half of the nearly 3.5 million foreclosure prevention actions ...

Completed foreclosures, foreclosure inventory, and serious delinquencies all experienced double-digit declines again in May, falling even further toward pre-recession levels, according to CoreLogic's May 2015 National Foreclosure Report released Tuesday. On a year-over-year basis, foreclosure inventory declined by 27 percent nationwide, down to ...

More millennials are valuing homeownership these days and trying harder to gather the funds for a home of their own, as a recent survey conducted by the Collingwood Group indicated. The survey, released today, showed that 65 percent of people ...

Witnesses at a recent House Financial Services Committee hearing testified the Dodd-Frank Act has "reduced financial stability" and made Americans worse off financially in the controversial law's first five years of existence. The hearing was the first in a series of three ...

Independent monitor Joseph A. Smith, Jr. has credited JPMorgan Chase with $3.3 billion in consumer relief under the terms of the 2013 JPMorgan Chase Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Settlement, according to a release from Smith's office on Thursday. In his fifth report on Chase's progress toward satisfying the $4 ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Final Rule, which will help communities that receive HUD funding get the help they need to meet fair housing obligations in the use of HUD funds. ...