Regulation
Trump fires CFPB director Rohit Chopra. Here's a Linkage roundup of the key news on America's top consumer finance regulator.
MBA Annual 2024 Conference live blog on all things mortgage originations, servicing, affordability, rates, regs, tech, and lender health after 2+ tough years in housing.
The fintech golden era suggested tech firms could engage in or power financial services without all the burdensome regs. Not true, as CFPB's Apple Card enforcement now shows.
Supreme Court just ruled that U.S. Patent and Trademark Office didn't violate the First Amendment when it refused to register a trademark for the phrase "Trump Too Small."

News hedge fund Hunterbrook launched with a piece alleging fraud at United Wholesale Mortgage while shorting the stock. Is this the future of media?

If buyer commissions are 3% on today's median prices for existing ($379,100) or newly built ($420,700) homes, that's $11,373 or $12,621 in extra closing fees for buyers.
NAR $418m lawsuit settlement could mean lower fees for home buyers and sellers. Redfin & CNBC explain how.
CNBC reports Capital One’s $35.3b acquisition of Discover has $1.38 billion breakup fee if rival bid emerges, but none if regulators kill deal
The US central bank is on track to cut rates in 2024, just not anytime soon
New lawsuit alleges real estate commissions in NYC still 5-6% even as apartment prices hit $2m. Here’s how it’ll play out.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on Thursday of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange in one of the biggest financial frauds on record, a verdict that cemented the 31-year-old former billionaire's fall from grace.
Since March 2020, the interest rate on federal student loans was set to zero. That ends Sept. 1. Here’s how it’ll play out.
FTC approval conditions for ICE to acquire Black Knight require the merged entity to divest its Empower loan origination and Optimal Blue pricing engine businesses, and for the next 10 years, they'd need FTC approval before re-acquiring divested businesses. Here's the fine print on the FTC's deal approval.
Today, market participants doubt Fitch's move to downgrade America's credit rating. A year from now they may change their tune. Here's why.
ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other AI tools are creating all kinds of rights ownership, privacy, and bias issues that Biden and Congress have to referee. Dylan Matthews at Vox explains how it's playing out.


