The CFPB has announced annual adjustments to two asset-size exemption thresholds. First, the CFPB is making no change to the asset-size exemption threshold under HMDA/Regulation C which is currently set at $44 million. Banks, savings associations, and credit unions with assets at or below $44 million as of December 31, 2015 will continue to be exempt from collecting HMDA data in 2016.

Second, the CFPB has decreased the asset-size threshold under TILA/Regulation Z for certain small creditors operating primarily in rural or underserved areas to qualify for an exemption to the requirement to establish an escrow account for higher-priced mortgage loans (HPML). The threshold is currently set at $2.060 billion. Loans made by creditors operating primarily in rural or underserved areas with assets of less than $2.052 billion as of December 31, 2015 (including assets of certain affiliates) that meet the other Regulation Z exemption requirements will be exempt in 2016 from the escrow account requirement for HPMLs. (The adjustment will also decrease the asset threshold for small creditor portfolio and balloon-payment qualified mortgages which references the HPML escrow account asset-size threshold.)