Tagged: regulations

Critical defect rate jumps 23.9% as math-based compliance findings expose the potential for one systemic error to affect loans across a lender’s book

As FHFA moves to give Federal Home Loan Banks more flexibility, the trade group is renewing its push to give qualified independent mortgage banks access to FHLBank membership and liquidity

Traditional protections like title insurance and closing protection letters may leave lenders exposed to significant settlement, funding, and fraud-related losses

August 6 was an important contractual checkpoint. The more consequential deadline is the day a GSE, regulator, investor, warehouse lender, or plaintiff asks the institution to produce evidence that its AI governance actually worked

Fannie Mae’s new requirements put AI oversight into practice, giving lenders a clear starting point for identifying risk and building responsible governance

Seller/servicers using artificial intelligence in origination or servicing must have formal policies, oversight, and vendor controls in place

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will eliminate abbreviated project reviews for condo applications dated on or after Aug. 3

Guide focuses on tracing mortgage data from borrower documents through AI validation, human review, and final LOS entry

Wholesale lender cites internal loan data to urge regulators to monitor whether new condominium eligibility standards reduce access to conventional financing

The lender group says mortgages below $100,000 routinely lose money, while LO compensation rules could prevent federal incentives from reaching originators