Among other things, the bill would allow FHA to make changes to the reverse mortgage program by mortgagee letter rather than legislation.

Mortgage Master continued its dominance in Massachusetts mortgage lending. Jumbo loan production swelled by 65 percent.

Accenture is making major inroads in the residential finance space with its purchase of Mortgage Cadence. Meanwhile, Fannie says market could move toward ARMs.

The MBA believes that the Treasury Department – despite being the GSEs’ single biggest shareholder – has been absent on Fannie/Freddie reform since early 2011.

The numbers suggest that after seven quarters of complaints being received by the CFPB, mortgage lenders are getting a better handle on complaint resolution.

Banking Industry Reps Ask CFPB to Delay Implementing Mortgage Rules. The CFPB should delay the January 2014 effective dates of several pending mortgage rules, a number of banking industry representatives said in a letter to CFPB Director Richard Cordray late last week. “These rules will dramatically refocus the entire lending process,” wrote the American Bankers Association and their state association affiliates. “Every participant in that process, from lenders to borrowers, service providers, appraisers, escrow agents, title...

Five industry trade groups jointly wrote the CFPB asking for a short-term fix and offering ideas to help the industry in effectively implementing the new requirements for disclosure of homeownership counseling information to consumers at the time of loan application, which was one element of the bureau’s final rule on high-cost mortgage loans issued in January. “We urge the CFPB to adopt a temporary compliance measure that will be possible to implement by the January 2014 compliance deadline, pending steps necessary...

The CFPB has released the first version of the 2013 Dodd-Frank Mortgage Rules Readiness Guide, which provides a set of criteria and preparation procedures for residential mortgage lenders and originators. The guide’s purposes are to help regulated entities comply with the mortgage rules, highlight key issue areas that may be closely examined during a review, and focus the industry and examiners on key elements of a compliance management system that may warrant review, modification, or other enhancement. The guide...

The CFPB’s final rule to integrate the consumer mortgage disclosures under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Truth in Lending Act is now projected to be issued sometime in October, a month later than had previously been indicated, according to the bureau’s semi-annual regulatory agenda update. The RESPA/TILA disclosure rule will be the last significant mortgage-related rulemaking as stipulated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act for the foreseeable future. All of the...

The Mortgage Bankers Association and the Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable provided the CFPB with a list of priority implementation items on the ability-to-repay/ “qualified mortgage” rule’s Appendix Q, which provides the standards to make the 43 percent debt-to-income determination required by the general QM standard. “We do not believe rigid adherence to deadlines should result in a rule that is unnecessarily difficult to implement or unduly limits credit for consumers,” the trade group reps...