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Byline: Jeff Horwitz JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has sued the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. over Washington Mutual's legal liabilities, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The complaint, filed in U.S. District [...]

Byline: Kate Berry, Jeff Horwitz The Department of Housing and Urban Development is a rare government agency that funds private enforcement of its own regulations. It does so via its [...]

Byline: Kate Berry, Jeff Horwitz Second in a series Even staunch industry defenders concede that banks handled struggling homeowners and foreclosures poorly in the wake of the financial crisis. Five [...]

Byline: Kate Berry, Jeff Horwitz First in a series The National Fair Housing Alliance held a pair of teleconferences over the past two months during which its president, Shanna Smith, [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Maria Aspan Major banks face a wave of state investigations into sales of defaulted credit card debt. Now the banks may be facing an even more pressing [...]

Byline: Maria Aspan, Jeff Horwitz JPMorgan Chase (JPM), which is bracing for a crackdown over its credit card debt collections practices, is trying to give regulators less ammunition. The nation's [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz When the Federal Housing Finance Agency hired Charles Landgraf to advise it on force-placed insurance, he already had some familiarity with the issues. He'd been lobbying the [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Bankers and specialty insurance executives defended their force-placed insurance practices and dodged questions about alleged industry kickbacks and price gouging at a private but well-attended 'working group' [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz As the overseer of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has a duty to safeguard taxpayer dollars. But the regulator may [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz New York's Department of Financial Services has reached a deal with several small specialty insurance carriers, triggering a statewide ban on force-placed insurance payments to banks. The [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kevin Wack First of two parts. When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, one of its provisions banned outright bounties that mortgage lenders had formerly paid [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kate Berry With much fanfare, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced on May 7 plans to sue Bank of America (BAC) and Wells Fargo (WFC) for [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Congressional gridlock has halted high-level reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but that should not stop policymakers from addressing the future of the government sponsored enterprises, [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Wells Fargo (WFC) and Bank of America (BAC) have repeatedly violated the terms of a national pact that requires them to improve their mortgage servicing practices, New [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Imagine, as one of Thomas G. Pareigat's clients once did, an add-on consumer banking product that combines identity theft protection, health benefits, and roadside assistance, all for [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kevin Wack The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will soon impose strict limits on so-called deposit-advance loans, according to [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz The Federal Housing Finance Agency has proposed banning force-placed insurance commissions in a blow to banks and other mortgage servicers. The regulator's move was first reported by [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Assurant (AIZ), the nation's largest force-placed insurer has agreed to New York State's demand that it stop paying bank partners for their business. This is likely more [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Quiet financial markets should arouse suspicion. That's the gist of a recent strain of thinking and research on low volatility, some of which has begun to filter [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz A plan to slash premiums for replacement homeowners insurance has been killed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to people informed of the agency's decision. The [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kate Berry The foreclosure review settlement this month gave regulators and banks a chance to escape a costly and much criticized process. But two lenders have chosen [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz 'Force-placed insurance' appears 478 times in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mortgage servicing rules released Thursday. But the agency's proscriptions do not touch on many of the [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Bank of America (BAC) eked out a $732 million profit as it closed out serious legal and regulatory costs in the fourth quarter. The costs of mortgage-repurchase [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz There wasn't an elegant exit strategy to be had. Still, a planned settlement between regulators and ten major banks will put an end to a troubled foreclosure [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Even before regulators unveiled a foreclosure review settlement this morning, critics were complaining that it was flawed. If there's a silver lining in the deal -- which [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Wells Fargo (WFC) has won a partial victory in its appeal of a closely watched, $203 million overdraft lawsuit, but both sides of the case are gearing [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Four months after Florida's insurance regulator rejected its prices as excessive, force-placed insurer QBE has offered to reduce its rates in the state by 19%. A portion [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz IndyMac became infamous for lending to homeowners with such abandon that it ended up in a multi-billion dollar bankruptcy. On Friday, a jury agreed with the Federal [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Maria Aspan Citigroup's new leader is repeating the bank's old tricks of cost-cutting. But this time he's targeting Citi's international identity. Chief Executive Michael Corbat's plan to [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a lawsuit against Credit Suisse (CS) for allegedly deceiving investors in mortgage backed securities, the second case he has [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz New York's Attorney General has issued a letter demanding that Wells Fargo (WFC) resume processing mortgage modification requests for borrowers in states hit by Hurricane Sandy. Wells [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NSM) earned a $55 million profit in the third quarter, driven by surging mortgage service revenue and the appreciation of mortgage loans in its [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kate Berry This is the second part of a story on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's independent foreclosure review program. A close look suggests [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz, Kate Berry In the wake of the financial crisis, banks mishandled foreclosures on such a scale that regulators stepped in. Led by the Office of the Comptroller [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Sallie Krawcheck's had some time to think over what's wrong with the banking industry in the year since Bank of America fired her. Yes, bankers are overpaid. [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz He's the former head of Citi Holdings. He's a former Harvard University football star who was feverishly recruited by the National Football League. Now, at age 52, [...]

Byline: Maria Aspan, Jeff Horwitz Sheila Bair has more harsh words for Citigroup (NYSE: C), even after its recovery from the worst of the financial crisis. The former Federal Deposit [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on the rise of Nationstar Mortage, a former subprime home equity lender which transformed itself into a [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz Nationstar has built its business on the bold premise that it can provide top-notch specialized loan care while expanding at an unprecedented pace. So far, the company [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz As mortgage banking giants were choking on home loans in late 2008, a subprime lender named Nationstar Mortgage Holdings was intent on getting deeper into the servicing [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz In an attempt to compensate for higher foreclosure related losses, the Federal Housing Finance Agency is proposing that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge higher fees on [...]

Byline: Jeff Horwitz When Fannie Mae agreed to pay Bank of America $512 million to buy the right to administer 384,000 loans last year, members of Congress questioned the size [...]