Most voters back a royal commission into the banking industry

Most voters back a royal commission into the banking industry

A majority of voters back a royal commission into the banking industry despite the Turnbull government's reluctance to agree to one, a new survey
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FHFA Announces Fiscal Goals for 2017

Fannie Mae Freddie Mac BH The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)'s strategic goals for Fiscal Year 2017 include ensuring safe and sound
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Utah-based lenders to pay nearly $10 million to settle mortgage allegation…

WASHINGTON Primary Residential Mortgage Inc and SecurityNational Mortgage Co have agreed to pay $5 million and $4.25 million, respectively,
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Judge says race car driver Scott Tucker owes $1.27 billion to the Federal Trade Commission for …

“Scott Tucker did not participate in an isolated, discrete incident of deceptive lending, but engaged in sustained and continuous conduct that
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RBS Securities to pay Connecticut $120M in mortgage case

(AP) — Connecticut officials say RBS Securities Inc. will pay the state $120 million to end an investigation of its underwriting of mortgage-backed
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NM real estate market still growing

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The state's residential market continues to show its strength with nearly 2,000 homes and condos changing hands in August
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Canada's banks brace for mortgage overhaul

Lenders will have to run stress tests on all new insured mortgages to ensure that borrowers can meet their debt obligations even if interest rates rise.
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Banking Practices Under Scrutiny Again as Morgan Stanley Faces Charges

“This complaint lays bare the culture at Morgan Stanley that bred the high pressure effort to cross sell banking products to its brokerage customers
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Calhoun County foreclosures remain at pre-recession levels as housing market continues …

Some economists and experts in real estate and mortgage lending say the county's housing market this year caught up to the improvements other
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Tauranga's housing market slowing, but values still rising

Tauranga's housing market activity and demand has slowed, but home values continue to increase. The latest QV statistics, released today, showed
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Sceptical welcome to government's new housing market policies

Meanwhile housing market analyst and buying agent Henry Pryor, also on on social media, wrote: “15,000 is a drop in the ocean. He's [Javid's] nearly
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Closing Cost Special

Now's the perfect time to get a mortgage with MainSource. With rates still low and $150 off closing costs, why wait to buy a new home or reduce the
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Illinois yanks billions of banking biz from Wells Fargo

Illinois is the second state, following California, to punish Wells Fargo with a one-year business moratorium in the wake of the bank's fake account
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Utah-based lenders agree to pay nearly $10M to resolve mortgage lending case

Two mortgage lending companies based in Salt Lake City have agreed to pay the United States nearly $10 million to resolve allegations that they
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Fresno banking firm completes acquisition of Sierra Vista Bank

Signage changes at the Sierra Vista banks will occur throughout October. Operational and system changes will be done in early November, officials
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2016 Capital Magnet Funds Awarded, Amount Available Could Grow by More than 30 Percent in …

The CMF is financed by 4.2 basis points of annual new business purchases by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and is administered by Treasury's CDFI
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Mayors of 18-Hour Cities See Opportunity in Authenticity, Differentiation

ULI's Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2016 report found that 18-hour cities such as Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Nashville,
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Podcast 76: Scott Sanborn of Lending Club

In the latest edition of the Lend Academy Podcast I interviewed the new Lending Club CEO to get his first hand take on where the company is at today.
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Moving From Passwords to Biometric Banking

For financial institutions, one of the primary goals of digitization is to improve the simplicity of banking. In an effort to improve the user experience, one
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How the tax code can help out those in real estate

On today's show, we'll talk about tax provisions granted to those who work in real estate; negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
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