Best Odds of Success in Making Consumer Complaint Data Confidential Rest With a New Director at the CFPB. Industry observers and lobbyists are increasingly of the view that the most likely way the industry will see the kind of substantive regulatory reform and relief it needs is not through federal legislation, but rather from a new director at the CFPB... ICYMI: The Financial CHOICE Act Would Exclude AMCs from Points and Fees Calculations. One overlooked provision in H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives on June 13, deals with residential mortgage appraisals...
Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ruled against the CFPB and in favor of a Kentucky law firm over allegations it paid kickbacks in violation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. The bureau accused the Borders & Borders law firm of Louisville, KY, and its principals, Harry Borders, John Borders Jr. and J. David Borders, of illegally paying kickbacks for real estate settlement referrals through a network of shell companies. The case began back in February 2011 when the Department of Housing and Urban Development notified the law firm it was being investigated for potential violations of RESPA’s anti-kickback provision. In April 2012, the CFPB advised Borders & Borders that it, rather ...
New Residential has purchased several servicing portfolios over the past year, acquiring rights from CitiMortgage, Walter/Ditech and United Shore, among others.
“This new trove of documents conclusively shows that the net worth sweep was designed solely to boost Treasury’s coffers and prevent the GSEs from rebuilding capital or exiting conservatorship,” said Investors Unite, a shareholder rights group.
Fannie said that about 3 or 4 percent of DU applications with DTI ratios ranging from 45 percent to 50 percent had been deemed ineligible because they failed the overlay test…
New documents were recently unsealed in Fairholme Funds vs. United States that give GSE shareholders more hope in proving the Treasury sweep was designed with an ulterior motive in mind.“The release of these documents is a very positive development in the case against Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac]. These documents fatally undermine the government’s claim,” said Pete Patterson, a partner with the Cooper & Kirk law firm representing the plaintiffs. Officials from Treasury have repeatedly said that the sweep was designed to prevent the two mortgage giants from collapsing. But the latest batch of 33 confidential emails and memos released under court order appears to illustrate otherwise.
Fannie Mae’s announcement in May that it will raise the debt-to-income cap from 45 to 50 percent is a win for expanding access to credit, especially for minority families, says a recent report by the Urban Institute.UI anticipates that as many as 95,000 new mortgages could be approved annually. With African-American and Latino families more likely to have DTI ratios above 45 percent, the authors of the paper note that a large share of the new loans will likely be to those families. Prior to the change, Fannie allowed for flexibility up to 50 percent DTI in certain cases.
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