In the spring of last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) filed an enforcement action against Ocwen Financial Corporation (“Ocwen”) and its subsidiaries for violation of mortgage servicing rules. The suit...more
Ocwen Financial Corporation (Ocwen) is one of the country’s largest nonbank mortgage loan servicers, and it has had its hands full the last six months. On April 20, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed an...more
Let’s revisit the Flagstar Bank case which I touched on in my November 20, 2014 posting. This is an important case for a number of reasons, most notably because it was the CFPB’s first enforcement action under the CFPB’s new...more
1/9/2015
/ Banks ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Flagstar Bank ,
Fraud ,
HUD ,
Loan Modifications ,
Loss Mitigation ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgage Servicing Rules
Armed with some background on what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is and does (from my 11-11-14 blog entry), let’s dive directly into the issue of rules. For starters, let’s look into the CFPB’s new rules...more