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CFPB Guidance on MSAs Seen as Strong Warning To Reconsider or Reject Such Arrangements

October 15, 2015
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new guidance on mortgage services agreements has given the industry little confidence about such arrangements and likely helped push another major lender, Bank of America, to shutter its MSA ventures. BofA decided to the pull the plug on all marketing services agreements it has with realty firms, including RE/MAX. The bank told IMFnews, an affiliated daily service, that it will discontinue all “space rental agreement programs due to recent regulatory developments.” Its MSA agreements will end...
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