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Republicans have been trying to chip away at Dodd-Frank almost since the law was enacted nearly six years ago. But lately they have made a more intense push, and they won a victory in the House of Representatives recently.

Home building in the U.S. slowed to the slowest pace in seven months after reaching a nine-year high, reflecting growing concerns in the construction sector and adding to inventory worries.

Shattering the myth that strong internal control structures are wildly costly, mortgage firms are beginning to find many of the solutions are right in front of them. Editor's note: This select print feature appears in the April 2016 edition of MReport magazine, available now.

Visionet Systems Inc., an automated document classification, indexing, and data extraction provider for the mortgage industry, recently announced it has completed an integration with loan origination system provider LendingQB.

Investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, is the latest financial firm to have its profits take a turn for the worse, following plummeting incomes reported from JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PNC.

Minneapolis Fed President and CEO Neel Kashkari believes that the largest banks are still Too Big to Fail, and he and his colleagues are exploring possible solutions.

Why is Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, asking the Government Accountability Office to conduct further study on the activities of the Federal Housing Finance Agency?

Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the second presidential candidate to address housing policy next to Hillary Clinton, who laid out her homeownership goals in February.

Confidence among home builders has held firm over the last few months, showing slow, but continued progression in the single-family sector. However, builders are still faced with concerns about labor and lot shortages.

Borrower claims appear to be fleeing the housing market two years after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau introduced the Ability to Repay rule for mortgage servicers.