It’s too soon to gauge the true impact of recent tax cuts on loan demand, but anecdotes from bankers suggest that, after months of stagnation, pipelines are filling up again.
The company, which recently shareda three-year plan to bring in more lower-cost deposits and commercial loans, seems ready to play offense a year after the abrupt ouster of its CEO.
Nonbank mortgage firms are seeking formal assurance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that they will not become subject to surprise audits or enforcement without involvement of a state regulator.
Allison Dukes will succeed current CFO Aleem Gillani when he retires at the end of this quarter, while Mark Chancy and Beau Cummins will become co-chief operating officers immediately.
Fannie Mae will request an infusion of taxpayer money for the first time since 2012 because of an unintended but anticipated side effect of the corporate tax cut signed into law in December.
The US Trustee's office just prevailed in a sanctions case against a law firm with a most creative fee scam. To oversimplify (and leave out certain other issues of bad behavior), the law firm steered debtors who owned cars in which they had zero equity into an arrangement in which the debtor's car would be towed for an (unpaid) fee by an affiliated firm and then stored in Indiana.
