A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
On July 10, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a proposal to amend the existing mortgage servicing rules in Regulation X. The substance of the proposal has attracted a lot of attention and...more
On August 21, the CFPB entered into a consent order with a nonbank mortgage servicer for mortgage servicing violations and for violating an earlier 2017 CFPB consent order for deficient foreclosure practices. In 2017, the...more
On August 21, 2024, the CFPB issued a Consent Order against the Company citing alleged failure to provide accurate information about loss mitigation options and improper handling of loan modifications. The Consent Order...more
On July 10, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) proposed a rule it says will streamline mortgage servicing and the loss mitigation process. If enacted, the proposed rule would significantly revise...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on July 10, 2024, announced a proposed rule that would require servicers to more intently assist borrowers throughout a "loss mitigation review cycle" before being permitted to...more
On June 28, 2021, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized amendments to the implementing regulation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Regulation X, which would establish temporary...more
Loss Mitigation Review Under RESPA Hurst v. Caliber Home Loans, Inc., N.D.Ohio No. 5:19-cv-00315, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51849 (Mar. 19, 2021) In this matter, the Northern District of Ohio held that a loan servicer did...more
If I should call a sheep’s tail a leg, how many legs would it have? According to Abe Lincoln, “only four, for my calling the tail a leg would not make it so.” So begins the Eleventh Circuit’s opinion holding the motion to...more
In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit held that a defendant is not required to plead as an affirmative defense under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act that it had complied with Section 1024.41 of the Code...more
In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit has held that the CFPB’s Mortgage Servicing Rules only apply to servicers and do not impute liability to the lender. In Christiana Trust v. Riddle, the consumer alleged that...more
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) and Regulation X require that federally related mortgage loan “servicers” comply with certain loss mitigation procedures. See, e.g., 12 U.S.C. § 2605; 12 C.F.R. § 1024.41. ...more
On June 7, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Consent Order against mortgage servicer Fay Servicing, LLC (Fay), requiring Fay Servicing to pay $1.15 million to borrowers and to cease activities...more
In separate consent orders, one bank will pay $28.8 million to resolve claims by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that it gave its distressed mortgage borrowers the "run-around" during the loss mitigation...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s mortgage servicing rules, which took effect on January 10, 2014, contain a number of detailed loss mitigation procedures that servicers must follow after a payment default. ...more
In its Supervisory Highlights released earlier this summer, the CFPB reported its examination observations in consumer reporting, debt collection, mortgage origination and servicing, fair lending, and student loan servicing....more
In its Supervisory Highlights recently released, which cover the period from January to April 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“The Bureau”) reported its examination observations in consumer reporting, debt...more
In This Issue: - Introduction - Potential Litigation Exposure Under the New Mortgage Servicing Regulations Governing Responses to Borrower Inquiries ..Which of the New Servicing Regulations Governing Responses...more
In January, the CFPB issued several new mortgage rules under the Dodd-Frank Act. ...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final rules regarding mortgage servicing last week which will undoubtedly change mortgage servicing operations in the United States - and according to some...more
On January 17, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued two final servicing rules that amend and add new provisions to the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (Rules), as...more
On August 10, 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (the “CFPB”) released two proposed rules (the “Proposed Rules”) intended to implement the mortgage servicing provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...more
The mortgage finance system in the United States is under radical reconstruction as a result of the events of 2007-2009. The Dodd-Frank Act (Dodd-Frank) impacts mortgage origination, servicing and securitization through a...more