Fannie Mae cuts outlook for 2025–26 home sales

Fannie Mae’s August mortgage origination forecast predicts lower volume in 2025 and 2026 compared with July as the government-sponsored enterprise moved its rate expectations higher. It now expects total home sales to decline year-over-year. Fannie Mae is still looking for existing home sales to rise, but not by as much previously expected. The drop off […]

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Fed’s Bowman: Banks, regulators must embrace emerging tech

The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator is promoting a pro-technology approach, urging a shift away from what she called “an overly cautious mindset” toward banks adopting innovative tools such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. In a speech Tuesday, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said regulators must understand new products and services used

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Sen. Scott thanks crypto industry for unseating Sherrod Brown

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C. publicly acknowledged the role that the crypto industry had in unseating former chairman Sherrod Brown, a longtime banking progressive, from the Senate.  Scott’s comments, made at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium just ahead of the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Summit, were a

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