Eye On Housing
According to the Household Debt and Credit Report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRB NY), the outstanding amount of housing-related debt, both home mortgages and home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), totaled $8.8 trillion in the second quarter of 2016, 2.6% ($225 billion) greater than the level from one year ago. However, the outstanding amount of home equity… Read More ›
On balance, the residential housing market has been improving in recent months, but the pace of recovery is partly restrained by frictions in the mortgage market. Against this backdrop, U.S. regulators have proposed comprehensive new regulatory capital requirements for U.S. banking organizations. These newly proposed rules will serve to implement Basel III, the most recent revision to international bank regulatory… Read More ›