Mortgage lenders looking to get ahead of the fair lending enforcement curve need to be aware that the industry will face greater scrutiny from the CFPB on two main fronts: access to credit and pricing issues, according to one top attorney. Speaking at the American Bankers Association’s recent regulatory compliance conference in San Diego, Andrew Sandler, chairman and executive partner at the BuckleySandler law firm in Washington, DC, said, “There are really two sets of issues that we’re seeing in fair lending, and that we’re increasingly going to see over time. The first is access to credit as an absolute concept.” As the U.S. came out of the financial crisis, as policymakers adopted all kinds of rules, regulations, philosophies and ...