On Monday, the ""Federal Housing Administration"":http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/federal_housing_administration (FHA) announced new rules to further reduce and better manage [IMAGE] counterparty risks to its insurance funds. These regulations will increase the net worth...

Phoenix-based ""Sharp Equity"":http://www.sharpequityhomes.com has begun offering title insurance for foreclosed homes purchased at trustee auctions in Arizona. The company says it's the first in the state to do so, and...

...Houston, Texas. [IMAGE] The actions prevent the two lenders from originating and underwriting new FHA-insured mortgages or from participating in the FHA single family insurance program. HUD's Mortgagee Review Board...

...collected full repayment on Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money given to insurance and investment firm ""Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc."":http://www.thehartford.com in the sum of $3.4 billion, as well as...

...investments of pension funds, insurance companies, and others. ""It is important for the government to consider the policy recommendations of investors, whose participation and capital are needed for there to...

...was interested in developing its own scorecard for a number of reasons. The TOTAL Scorecard ensures that applicants for FHA loan insurance are evaluated by the same scoring process regardless...

...trade group’s researchers also noted in their report that commercial mortgage delinquency rates continued to increase for most investor groups in the fourth quarter, the one exception being life insurance...

...an increase in problem banks, an increase in bank failures, loss of jobs, loss of incomes, loss to communities, loss to the deposit insurance fund, and higher costs for all...

...Sterling National Insurance Agency, Sterling Property Tax Solutions, Inc., Sterling National Enterprises LLC, and Westwood Insurance Agency, Inc. Sterling National Corporation provides hazard insurance and outsourcing services, voluntary homeowners insurance,...

The ""Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance"":http://oci.wi.gov has taken control of mortgage bond insurer ""Ambac Assurance Corp.'s"":http://www.ambac.com/Press/032510.html ""most troubled holdings,"" as the insurance commissioner phrased it. [IMAGE] The commandeering...