Episode 25: 10 Factors That May Hinder a Contractor’s Ability to Repay Its Bank Loans and Threaten Its Existence
Critical Mortgage Regulatory Updates by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for 2013 and 2014
On August, 18, 2020, the CFPB issued a new proposed rule to create a new category of “seasoned qualified mortgages” (Seasoned QMs) that would receive the safe harbor conclusive presumption of meeting the Ability to Repay...more
In This Presentation: - The Qualified Mortgage (QM) Rule - Small Creditor QM Proposal - The Ability-to-Repay (ATR) Rule: What It Says and What It Means - Liability for Failure to Comply with the ATR and QM...more
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “Bureau”) has released a proposal (the "Proposal") to amend the Bureau's recently issued final rules (the “Rules”) on the definition of a qualified mortgage (“QM”) and the...more
On January 10, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued much-anticipated revisions to Regulation Z to implement provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that require lenders to...more
Few would dispute that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act or Act) has fundamentally altered the residential mortgage industry. Although the Act was passed just over three years ago,...more
Congress in the Dodd-Frank Act responded to concerns about the quality of mortgage loans by establishing incentives for lenders to seek to ensure that borrowers had the ability to repay mortgage loans made to them. In...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final ability to repay rule (Rule) on January 10, 2013. The Rule implements ability-to-repay provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, which imposed strict underwriting...more