The CFPB recently posted on its website updated versions of guidance in connection with the revisions to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) rules that become effective on January 1, 2018, and also posted a new guidance...more
In August 2017, we reported that the CFPB had given the mortgage industry a first look at the Internet-based platform it is developing for industry members to use to submit data under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a second version of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Regulation C) Small Entity Compliance Guide. The updated version incorporates various changes to the HMDA rule that...more
The CFPB recently released a revised version of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule Small Entity Compliance Guide.
The revised version incorporates the recent amendments to the rule that became effective on October...more
10/12/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Closing Documents ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Escrow Instructions ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgages ,
Regulation Z ,
TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (TRID)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently posted on its website updated versions of guidance in connection with the revisions to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) rules that become effective on January 1,...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently entered into a consent order with Meridian Title Corporation (Meridian) under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). ...more
10/2/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Consent Order ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Insurance Industry ,
Mortgages ,
Popular ,
Regulation X ,
RESPA ,
Title Insurance
In October 2015, the CFPB adopted significant changes to the rules under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Among the changes, the items of information to be collected and reported under HMDA are greatly expanded, with...more
In July, the CFPB finalized amendments to the TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule. Published in the Federal Register earlier this month, the amendments will become effective on October 10, 2017, with a mandatory...more
As we reported previously, on July 7, 2017 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) posted on its website long awaited amendments to the TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule, and a proposal to address the...more
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced that it has reopened and extended until September 1, 2017 the comment period on its Request for Input on improving language access in mortgage lending and servicing. The FHFA...more
On August 3, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provided the mortgage industry with a first look at the portal to be used for the reporting of, and public access to, data under the Home Mortgage Disclosure...more
As we reported previously, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued long-awaited amendments to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA)/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) Integrated Disclosure (TRID)...more
The CFPB issued HMDA Loan Scenarios on July 19, 2017 to provide additional guidance to the industry on reporting transactions under the revised HMDA rule, which has a January 1, 2018 effective date for most provisions....more
As we have previously reported, in October 2015 the CFPB adopted significant revisions to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) rule, most of which become effective January 1, 2018. Among the revisions, the reporting of...more
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced that it has extended until July 31, 2017 the comment period on its Request for Input on improving language access in mortgage lending and servicing....more
The CFPB has updated the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act guidance that is available on its resource webpage for HMDA filers. Updates were made to the Technology Preview, the Filing Instruction Guides for both data collected in...more
The CFPB finalized the long-awaited initial round of amendments to the TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule, also known as the Know Before Your Owe rule. However, instead of addressing the so-called “black hole”...more
The CFPB recently issued final amendments to the TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule and a proposal to further amend the TRID rule. The CFPB has also issued an Executive Summary of the amendments....more
A group of eight trade associations has sent a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) asking the FHFA to extend by at least 45 days the comment period on the FHFA’s Request for Input (RFI) on improving language...more
The federal banking agencies together with the National Credit Union Administration (the “Agencies”) issued an Interagency Advisory on the Availability of Appraisers that is intended to help address the real estate appraiser...more
For years many industry participants wondered if allowing their real estate agents or loan officers to engage in co-marketing on Zillow Group applications and websites posed a risk to their companies under RESPA. The...more
The DOJ submitted its amicus brief in the PHH case on Friday, March 17. We have blogged extensively about this case since its inception. Unsurprisingly, the Trump DOJ supports striking from Dodd-Frank the...more
3/20/2017
/ Administrative Proceedings ,
Amicus Briefs ,
Banking Sector ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Dodd-Frank ,
PHH Corp. v CFPB ,
Removal For-Cause ,
RESPA ,
Single Director ,
Statutory Interpretation
FinCEN announced today that it is renewing the existing Geographical Targeting Orders (GTOs) issued in July 2016 that require all title insurance companies to identify and report on the natural persons behind shell companies...more
2/23/2017
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Banking Sector ,
Beneficial Owner ,
BSA/AML ,
Cash Transactions ,
FATF ,
Financial Institutions ,
FinCEN ,
Geographic Targeting Order ,
Insurance Industry ,
Money Laundering ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Real Estate Market ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Shell Corporations ,
Title Insurance
On October 15, 2015, the CFPB released a final rule amending Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), requiring certain data on mortgage applications and loans to be collected beginning in 2017...more
2/16/2017
/ Amended Regulation ,
Banking Sector ,
Borrowers ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Covered Financial Institutions ,
Data Collection ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Institutions ,
HMDA ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgages ,
Regulation C ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Webinars
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently commenced a redlining lawsuit against KleinBank, a state-chartered Minnesota bank subject to the regulatory authority of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The...more
1/31/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Community Reinvestment Act ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Discriminatory Lending Practices ,
ECOA ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
HMDA ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgages ,
Race Discrimination ,
Redlining