Given the expanding reach of the CFPB’s regulatory oversight wingspan, many types of entities beyond a traditional financial services company could find themselves subjected to unanticipated and unwanted scrutiny in the form of a civil investigative demand from the bureau. Attorneys at the Latham & Watkins law firm in Washington, DC, recently detailed how affected companies should plan and respond to such a demand. First, upon receipt of a CID, a company should immediately begin to develop a response plan, including an analysis of the company’s ability to respond in a timely manner. “Important response deadlines come up in a matter of days after service of a CID, so delays can impair a company’s ability to effectively respond in a ...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is planning to auction $4.8 billion of nonperforming single-family mortgage loans in two offerings under the FHA Single Family Loan Sale (SFLS) initiative. The auction – HUD SFLS 2014-2 – will be next month. A national offering of roughly 23,200 loans totaling $4 billion in unpaid principal balance is scheduled for a bid on June 11. The second part of the auction is an offering of 4,800 loans totaling $800 million in UPB in designated geographic areas that are aimed at a neighborhood stabilization outcome or “NSO-targeted” loan pools. Bidding will be on June 25. The eight NSO regions for the June offering are Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Bernardino County, CA, and Cumberland County., NJ. SEBA Professional Services, a woman-owned contracting firm, has ...
The National Association of Federal Credit Unions is calling upon the CFPB and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to be more transparent about how they plan to use the information they want to collect for their joint National Mortgage Database. “First and foremost, NAFCU believes greater transparency should be provided by the FHFA and CFPB on what this information is being used for and which divisions within each agency have access to it,” NAFCU Regulatory Affairs Counsel Angela Meyster said in a letter to the FHFA. In addition, NAFCU urged the FHFA and CFPB to select only robust and representative subsets of the data when they seek to use it to support particular policies or rulemakings. “Further, the agencies should ...
Only an approved lender-servicer may subservice FHA 203(k) rehabilitation mortgages and their escrow accounts, according to a reminder issued this week by the FHA. The FHA said one of the functions of a servicer of FHA-insured property rehabilitation loan is to service the loan’s escrow account. The same rule applies when servicing is delegated to another party, the agency said. The FHA allows an approved FHA servicer to farm out the work as long as the delegated third party is also agency-approved. HUD regulations state that the lender remain fully responsible for proper servicing and that the subservicer’s actions is also considered to be the actions of the lender. The FHA further reminded lenders of the importance of updating FHA systems with any mortgage record changes as outlined in previous guidance. HUD requires that FHA systems ...
The CFPB and the state attorneys general are well-positioned to work together and are continuing to do so, even though they have not completed efforts to strike a formal memorandum of understanding explicitly spelling out the terms of their cooperative relationship, one legal expert said recently. One of the areas in which such cooperation is continuing is in issues that affect U.S. military service members, according to attorney Clarine Nardi Riddle, who chairs the government affairs practice of the Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman law firm in Washington, DC. Riddle served from 1989 to 1991 as the first female state attorney general of Connecticut after a stint as the deputy AG in the preceding three years. “There’s a natural sweet ...
President Obama is expected to announce his intent to nominate Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan as director of the Office of Management and Budget and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to replace him. If confirmed by the Senate, Castro would be the second Hispanic after Henry Cisneros to assume the top post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Also a former mayor of San Antonio, Cisneros served as HUD secretary during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997. Currently in his third term as mayor, Castro is a strong advocate of affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, inner-city investment and child education and works closely with the San Antonio Housing Authority. San Antonio mortgage bankers said they have had little interaction with Castro, who, they say is “big on housing issues.” “We’re hoping to hear a little bit more about his ...
House Financial Services Committee Formally Passes More CFPB Legislation. The House Financial Services Committee took final votes on some potentially significant CFPB-related measures. H.R. 1779, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act of 2013, introduced by Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-TN, was approved by voice vote. H.R. 4521, the Community Institution Mortgage Relief Act of 2014, introduced by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-MO, was approved 43-16. H.R. 4466, the Financial Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014, introduced by Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV, was approved 34-25. H.R. 2673, the Portfolio Lending and Mortgage Access Act, introduced by Rep. Andy Barr, R-KY, was approved 36-23. H.R. 3211, the Mortgage Choice Act of 2013, introduced by Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-MI, was passed by voice vote ...
“Due to the new Dodd-Frank guidelines, fewer buyers will be qualified to purchase homes, which will ultimately affect my livelihood as well,” one Realtor said.
Although the long-term prospects for the agency MBS market are highly uncertain, the near-term future is wherever Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae take it – and the highly anticipated shift in investor demand as the Federal Reserve eases out of the market. The development of a common securitization platform for Fannie and Freddie will take several years, even after the Federal Housing Finance Agency narrowed the project, said Bob Ryan, a special advisor to the FHFA, during a panel session at this week’s Secondary Market Conference sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association. The 2014 plan for the government-sponsored enterprises includes clarifying the scope of the CSP project, which has been in the works for over a year. “We’re not talking...
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