Republican lawmakers want the CFPB to be led by an independent inspector general appointed by the president.

CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger assured Republican senators that the CFPB will examine industry concerns regarding the integrated mortgage disclosure rule.

Chris D’Angelo, associate director of the supervision and enforcement division at the CFPB, is departing. In February, he will join the New York attorney general’s office as chief deputy attorney general for economic justice.

The CFPB is seeking a legislative fix to give it clear authority to supervise institutions to ensure compliance with the Military Lending Act.

Most mortgage-related complaints from servicemembers are related to servicing payments, according to an annual report by the CFPB’s Office of Servicemember Affairs.

Mortgage-related consumer complaints filed with the CFPB dropped 21.5 percent last year to a mere 23,991 — the lowest number since the agency opened its door, according to a new analysis by Inside the CFPB. [Includes two data charts.]

The critical ability-to-repay provision related to the 2017 payday lending rule is likely to be scrapped by the CFPB, industry attorneys observed.

The House Financial Services Committee will target White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney over his previous role as the interim head of the CFPB, said Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the HFSC, one of the most powerful House committees.

The Treasury Department continues to work on administrative changes for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that can be implemented by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but a blueprint is unlikely until sometime in the early spring.

Changes to the Department of Labor’s overtime rule are anxiously anticipated as they may finally answer, among other things, whether mortgage loan officers are excluded from overtime pay.