Two strongly pro-consumer mortgage lending initiatives underway at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are nearing completion, top agency officials told industry representatives recently. One project nearing the finish line is the ability-to-repay rulemaking the bureau inherited earlier this year from the Federal Reserve Board. The final rule will be unveiled “early next year in order to provide clarity to the market as quickly as we can, without sacrificing the quality of our analysis,” said Raj Date, special advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for the CFPB, in comments before attendees at a conference sponsored by SourceMedia. “I’m a real believer in...