The practice of banks forcing expensive homeowners insurance on borrowers could come to an end after Fannie Mae told lenders it would seek to oversee such policies itself. For many homeowners who are required to buy insurance as a condition …
New York and federal officials will cooperate in investigations of banks bundling mortgages into troubled securities that helped cause the 2008 Wall Street collapse. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Steve Linick, the inspector general of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, …
The reach of a government effort to help distressed homeowners refinance their mortgages could be largely determined by details on lender liability that will be announced Tuesday. The regulator for government-controlled mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said …
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