Evolving State Supervision: Issues Arising from State Qualification Standards and 'SAFE' Act Licensing, and Coordination with the CFPB
A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued guidance on February 7 in the form of an Advisory Opinion intended to “protect mortgage borrowers from pay-to-play digital comparison-shopping platforms.” Specifically,...more
As previously reported, at the end of April 2020, the CFPB issued two factsheets regarding the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B provisions that require creditors to provide the applicant with a copy of any...more
• The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) rolls back some of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that were found to be overly burdensome and/or difficult to comply with, particularly for...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued a statement regarding the partial exemption from Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) reporting requirements for certain lower mortgage volume depository...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the U.S. published an outline of proposals on July 28, 2016 to govern consumer debt collection by debt collectors including third-party collection agencies, debt buyers,...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will not be flexing its rulemaking muscles in the student loan arena for some time to come, according to the CFPB’s spring 2016 rulemaking agenda. The fall 2015 rulemaking...more
The CFPB's Supervisory Report Provides Important Insight into the CFPB's Supervision and Enforcement Priorities and Desired Business Practices. HIGHLIGHTS: - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...more
oin Pepper Hamilton LLP, the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) and RECOVCO Mortgage for an engaging discussion about important recent trends involving state supervision as states shift an ever greater amount of...more
In This Presentation: - Events That Changed Our World; And Yours Too! - Current Issues in Licensing - State Coordination With CFPB - The Path to Coordination - Responsibilities of the SCC ...more
In yesterday’s Federal Register, the CFPB published the compliance bulletin and policy guidance (Bulletin 2014-01) regarding mortgage servicing transfers that it previously issued on August 19, 2014 (New Guidance). The New...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced a consent order with Flagstar Bank, F.S.B., alleging unfair acts and practices under the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA) and violations of the CFPB's...more
The CFPB recently issued an 89-page small entity compliance guide for the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (the “Guide”). As we reported previously, the CFPB issued the final rule in November 2013 to integrate the...more
The beginning of 2014 marked the implementation of new rules for mortgage servicers, lenders and brokers. According to CFPB Director Richard Cordray in his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, the goal...more
Describing his message as a “tough one,” CFPB Deputy Director Steven Antonakes told attendees yesterday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s National Mortgage Servicing Conference that “continued sloppiness” by servicers “is...more
Last month, the CFPB began using new templates for its examination reports and supervisory letters (collectively, “reports’). The template changes were announced in the CFPB’s Winter 2013 Supervisory Report, which highlights...more
The CFPB has revised its examination procedures for mortgage servicing and mortgage origination. The revisions are intended to update the CFPB’s existing examination procedures to reflect the new mortgage rules which became...more
The CFPB has announced that on January 10, 2014, the date on which most of its new mortgage rules take effect, it will host an event entitled “Protecting homeowners: New tools for empowering consumers and advocates.” The...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
On Wednesday, October 23, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “Bureau”) published interim final rules (and a request for public comment) in the Federal Register to amend further its Regulation Z (Truth in Lending)...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), the financial watchdog agency created following the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices in the financial products and...more
European Banking Authority Publishes Responses to Consultation Paper on the Definition of Material Risk Takers for Remuneration Purposes - The European Banking Authority (EBA) published a list of responses received to...more
On August 21, the CFPB issued a report which details mortgage servicing problems at banks and nonbanks, which include: (i) “sloppy” account transfers; (ii) poor payment processing; and (iii) loss mitigation mistakes....more
Although its new mortgage servicing rules are not effective until January 10, 2014, the CFPB seems to already be using those rules as guideposts in its examinations of servicers....more
The CFPB has issued two more Small Entity Compliance Guides on its mortgage-related rules. The latest guides cover the mortgage servicing rule and loan originator compensation rule finalized by the CFPB in January 2013....more