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GOP Just Keeps Pushing Financial Reform

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.

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Back to Basics: 4 Ways to Transform the GSEs

Andrew Davidson, President of Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc., says that the GSEs should be striped down to the functions that promote standardization, liquidity, and access to credit, and adopt the best governance structures for those functions using these four methods.

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No Need to Break the Bank for Tech Costs

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.

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Goldman Sachs’ Profits Suffer a Huge Blow

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.

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Sen. Shelby Requests Probe of FHFA

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?

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Are Small Loans a Thing of the Past?

One task that has never been easy in the housing market is getting a mortgage loan for under $50,000, but small loans are quickly nearing the point of nonexistence which will create barriers of entry for homeownership.

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