The Community Home Lenders Association called for regulatory streamlining for smaller independent mortgage bankers in a comment letter to the CFPB in response to its request for information on enforcement and supervision. The CHLA, which claims to be the only national association that exclusively represents IMBs, said the bureau should reduce burdens and compliance risks faced by IMBs “through targeted CFPB exam and enforcement exemptions.” Under current law, every nonbank ...
Back in July 2017, Fannie revised its automated underwriting system to accept loans with DTI ratios over 45 percent without lenders having to show other compensating factors…
States are dedicating more resources for consumer protection in financial services to fill the vacuum of a potentially less aggressive CFPB. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, D, recently said in a press release that he and Gov. Phil Murphy, D, will “fill the void left by the Trump administration’s pullback of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,” and create what they referred to as a “state-level CFPB.” Murphy will name Paul Rodriguez as the director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs ...
The nature of the CFPB is completely in the eyes of the beholder. In hearings on Capitol Hill last week, Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney was grilled by Democrats while Republicans praised his efforts to reform the bureau. Mulvaney appeared before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee last week to testify on the CFPB’s semi-annual report. The major changes he proposed included: giving Congress authority to approve ...
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