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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

FinCEN Finalizes Rule to Compel Reporting of Individuals and Beneficial Ownership of Entities Involved in Specified Transfers of...

FINCEN’s final rule (RRE Rule), effective December 1, 2025, will require disclosure of the transferor and transferee(s) and the individuals and the beneficial owners of entities involved as transferee in the transfer of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HUD Updates Home Equity Conversion Rules for Purchases

On April 26, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued Mortgagee Letter 2024-06, announcing changes to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) for purchases (H4P loans), a mortgage program...more

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FinCEN's Proposed New Rule to Increase Reporting Requirements in Residential Real Estate

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On February 7, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a new rule to increase reporting requirements for nonfinanced, entity-purchased residential real estate. FinCEN...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - June 2023 - A New Definition of Summer Madness

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the June 2023 webinar. Bite 12: CFPB Focusing on Overdraft Issues - On May 18, 2023, the CFPB announced that it had issued a...more

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Fed Proposes Guidelines for Access to Master Accounts and Payment Services

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In This Issue. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), in response to an increased number of inquiries and access requests from companies with fintech and other narrow purpose charters, invited...more

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Top 6 Takeaways from the Allen Matkins/ULI Capital Markets Roundtable

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Allen Matkins and Urban Land Institute (ULI) recently held a Capital Markets Roundtable discussion, in two parts, that featured several industry leaders. They shared insights regarding the effect that COVID-19 has had on...more

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HVCRE ADC Update: Regulators Propose Eliminating Exemption for Land Development Loans

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Just when you thought the regulators had forgotten about HVCRE ADC, they issued a new notice of proposed rulemaking like they were Beyoncé surprise-dropping a new album. And then…they disappeared again! We were waiting for...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Residential Mortgage Regulatory Enforcement & Litigation - October 29th-30th, Dallas, TX

Attend the only forum designed to help you navigate the Residential Mortgage Industry’s evolving landscape. Now in its 26th installment, ACI’s Residential Mortgage forum has become a premier gathering of the key industry...more

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NJ Amends Key Property Foreclosure Processes

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New Jersey’s mortgage and property creditors must comply with new foreclosure provisions that accelerate title transfers and sales of abandoned properties and provide added protections for residential homeowners....more

Holland & Knight LLP

China Practice Newsletter: May-June 2019

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Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics. The firm provides legal assistance to Chinese investors and companies doing business or making...more

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New Jersey Improves and Clarifies Its Residential Mortgage Lending Act

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• The State of New Jersey, on Aug. 24, 2018, enacted Assembly Bill 2035 that makes significant and important amendments (Amendments) to the Residential Mortgage Lending Act (RMLA), which had not been amended since it was...more

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Electronic Mortgage Closings Improve Homebuying

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The financial services industry — and the consumer financial services marketplace in particular — is experiencing significant innovation. Technology has facilitated the emergence of fintech as a major industry — fundamentally...more

Burr & Forman

Burr Alert: “Alakazam”(or not): No Magic Language Necessary for Confirmation Waivers as Georgia Courts Continue to Allow...

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In last March’s edition of this newsletter, we discussed the Supreme Court of Georgia’s decision in PNC Bank, National Association v. Smith, in which the Court held that compliance with O.C.G.A. § 44-14-161 “is a condition...more

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West Coast Real Estate Update: November 2016 #3

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Owners, Developers Face Challenges Converting Parking to E-Commerce Delivery Space - Because millennials make up an increasing number of urban residents, owners and developers of apartment and condominium buildings are...more

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West Coast Real Estate Update: November 2016 #2

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California Appellate Court Overturns “Sham Guaranty” Defense - The single-purpose entity (SPE) has become a ubiquitous tool in commercial real estate acquisitions and financing in California. Lenders increasingly require...more

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Cordray remarks to MBA signal continued CFPB focus on servicing, likely petition for rehearing in PHH case

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In his remarks at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual meeting in Boston on October 25, Director Cordray signaled that mortgage servicing will continue to be a focus of CFPB supervisory and enforcement activity, with the...more

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CFPB approves FHLMC/FNMA revised uniform residential loan application; collection of HMDA ethnicity and race information in 2017

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In a notice published in today’s Federal Register, the CFPB announced that it has given its “official approval” to a revised and redesigned Uniform Residential Loan Application (2016 URLA) and to the collection of expanded...more

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Diversity assessment and remedial measures required by CFPB consent order

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On June 29, 2016, BancorpSouth Bank announced a proposed settlement and consent order with the CFPB and the U.S. Department of Justice of charges that the bank’s mortgage lending practices violated the Equal Credit...more

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Down Payment Assistance Stand-Off between HUD and the Inspector General Clouds the Waters

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The HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit on July 9, 2015, in which it opined that loans that included down payment assistance programs from state housing agencies ran afoul of HUD regulations. (OIG Report...more

Carlton Fields

The TRID Rule: Impact and Consequences on the Residential Mortgage Lending Market

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Introduction and Background - Residential mortgage lenders have long been required to disclose to their borrowers (i) the cost of credit to the consumer and (ii) the cost to the consumer of closing the loan transaction....more

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Mortgage Acknowledgements: Can A Boo-Boo Be Fixed?

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Bank of America, N.A. v. Casey, 517 B.R. 1 (D. Mass. 2015) – A Chapter 7 trustee sought to avoid a mortgage using “strong-arm” powers based on a defect in the acknowledgement. The mortgagee contended that the defect was...more

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FHFA Finalizes House Price Index Measure for Conforming Loan Limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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On October 19, 2015, the Federal Housing Finance Agency issued a Final Notice indicating that it will continue to use “expanded-data” House Price Index when establishing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s maximum conforming loan...more

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Director Cordray sends warning to vendors on TRID rule compliance

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In remarks yesterday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual convention, CFPB Director Richard Cordray stated that the CFPB may need to look more closely at vendors of software and other tools used by lenders to comply...more

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Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending October 16, 2015

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REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - - Foreclosure/Standing: although bank established it had possession of note prior to commencement of action, bank did not demonstrate when blank endorsement was placed on note, nor did it prove it...more

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Mortgage Applications Decrease in Week Following TRID Implementation

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New data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) shows that total mortgage applications decreased 27.6 percent from the previous week as a result of CFPB’s TILA-RESPA integrated disclosures (TRID) rule, which became...more

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