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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

September 9, 2015

Better to Be a Banker or a Non-Banker?

By David Reiss

  The Community Home Lenders Association (CHLA) has prepared an interesting chart, Comparison of Consumer and Financial Regulation of Non-bank Mortgage Lenders vs. Banks.  The CHLA is a trade association that represents non-bank lenders, so the chart has to be read in … Continue reading

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April 13, 2015

Reiss on Mortgage Lingo

By David Reiss

MainStreet.com quoted me in 10 Terms of Mortgage Industry Lingo for Potential Homeowners to Learn. It reads, in part, The mortgage industry is no different from the rest of the financial or tech world and is fraught with odd terminology, tons … Continue reading

October 9, 2014

A Framework For Housing Finance

By David Reiss

The Government Accountability Office has released Housing Finance System: A Framework for Assessing Potential Changes. The GAO writes, To help policymakers assess various proposals for changing the single-family housing finance system and consider ways in which the system could be … Continue reading

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