Meridian Capital Group will resume business with Freddie in January, more than a year after it was banned in response to allegations that some of its brokers falsified client financials to get bigger loans.

Mortgage broker Meridian Capital Group will be freed from a Freddie Mac ban months after Freddie stopped buying loans handled by the firm amid an industrywide crackdown on fraud.

Ralph Herzka’s firm can broker deals that pass through the government-sponsored enterprise, but there are strings attached.

Freddie Mac is set to end its blacklist of Meridian Capital Group after the real-estate broker overhauled its risk and controls, signaling the type of requirements the rest of the industry could soon face as regulators ramp up a broader fraud crackdown.