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The CFPB Strongly Scrutinizes MSAs Under RESPA

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently provided guidance discouraging mortgage industry participants from entering into marketing services arrangements (MSAs). An MSA is an agreement under which a settlement...more

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CFPB Guidance Cautions Against Marketing Services Agreements

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On October 8, 2015, the CFPB issued compliance Bulletin 2015-05 cautioning against the use of marketing services agreements (MSAs), due to the “substantial legal and regulatory risk” of violating the Real Estate Settlement...more

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CFPB Bulletin Cautions That Marketing Services Agreements Often Violate RESPA

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Lenders utilizing “marketing services agreements” (“MSAs”) beware: On October 8, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a new bulletin strongly cautioning that MSAs often violate Real Estate Settlement...more

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No deference for CFPB amicus brief from Ninth Circuit

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Many readers probably remember Edwards v. First American Financial Corp. for its ill-fated journey to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had granted certiorari to decide the issue of whether a plaintiff who brings a...more

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CFPB “Final” TRID Webinar

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The CFPB staff held a “final” webinar on May 26, 2015, to address the Truth in Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule that becomes effective on August 1, 2015. Presumably the...more

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CFPB Ups the Ante in RESPA Crackdowns

On April 29, 2015, the CFPB, in conjunction with the Maryland Attorney General, filed six proposed consent orders—five of which are against individual defendants—in its latest RESPA enforcement action. The Bureau alleges that...more

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Aggressive Regulators and the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Who Follow Them

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As soon as a putative class action complaint hits the clerk’s office alleging a new theory of liability, plaintiffs’ lawyers rush to sign up potential class representatives and file copycat suits in as many jurisdictions as...more

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CFPB settles RESPA charges for marketing services agreements allegedly tied to referrals

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The CFPB has announced that it has entered into a consent order with a Michigan title insurance agency to settle charges that the agency violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) by paying fees to various...more

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CFPB orders New Jersey title services company to pay for illegal mortgage referrals

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On June 12, the CFPB announced that it has issued a Consent Order under which a New Jersey title services company, Stonebridge Title Services Inc., agreed to pay a $30,000 civil money penalty for paying illegal kickbacks for...more

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The Wait is Over. The Anxiety Begins. The CFPB Issues its Final Rule to Combine RESPA and TILA Mortgage Disclosures

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Well, the wait is over. After 16 months and much anticipation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB” or “Bureau”) released a 1,888-page final rule on November 20, 2013 to combine mortgage disclosures required...more

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