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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finally set an official effective date for the Know Before You Owe mortgage disclosure rule, also called the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures rule, after much debate and numerous industry requests to delay the rule. The CFPB issued a final rule moving the effective date to Saturday, October 3, 2015 on Tuesday.

JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to pay $388 million to resolve a lawsuit by investors who claimed that the U.S. bank provided misleading information about the safety of $10 billion worth of residential mortgage-backed securities it sold before the financial crisis, according to multiple media reports.

Mortgage applications for new home purchases and refinance applications both experienced increases as home prices recover, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association June 2015 Builder Application Survey and Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 10, 2015.

Rick Sharga, EVP of Auction.com, discusses the June housing data and its impact on the overall market in a recent video released by the company. In the video, Sharga talks about the positive results seen in existing home sales, new home sales, and home price data. He questions whether this means the housing market is fully recovered and concludes that the market has not completely recovered and is still improving from previous years.

As the spring homebuying season comes to a close and Americans cope with the uncertain after effects of the Greek crisis on the economy, the U.S. Treasuries lowered average fixed mortgage rates down to 4.04 percent, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) results.

The debate over whether "too big to fail" has ended and the criteria for designating a bank holding company as "systemically important" under Dodd-Frank has continued this week as lawmakers convened to discuss the controversial law and its effect on the American financial system.

Freddie Mac has added another innovation to its suite of credit risk transfer offerings. According to a recent press release, the Enterprise added its first two Agency Credit Insurance Structure (ACIS) transactions that provide coverage based on both first loss and actual losses realized on a reference pool of residential mortgages.

Wells Fargo & Company recently announced that Hope Hardison, who leads Human Resources for the company, will become Chief Administrative Officer, effective August 31, 2015. She will succeed newly retired Pat Callahan, who has been with the company for 38 years.

RedVision, an independent national provider of title and real property research solutions based in Parsippany, New Jersey, recently announced in a press release the completion of their new business structure called the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team to align cross-organizational resources across all points of the customer life cycle.

The conflicts of student loan debt surpass just actual repayment. Trulia research titled "The Debt of Wrath: Do Student Loans Affect Saving for a Home?" recently found that college degrees hinder young millennials from saving up for a 20 percent down payment on a home due to student loan repayment, but in the most expensive markets, only those with a college degree will be capable of saving up enough for a home in their lifetime.