Matt Monahan is expected to aid HL as it tries to take advantage of a red hot market for servicing sales. A former deal maker at Cohane Rafferty Securities, he will beef-up HL’s mortgage sales force.
Two nonbanks among the top five servicers now control almost 9 percent of the residential receivables market. Should regulators be worried? Should the MBA?
New Document Delivery Solution Aims to Boost Lenders’ Efforts to Meet CFPB Appraisal Delivery Requirements. Black Knight Financial Services of Jacksonville, FL, recently launched its Document Delivery Service to help lenders deliver CFPB-mandated appraisals to consumers. “The service enables lenders to securely and reliably deliver the documents in both electronic and paper formats, helping lenders comply with the bureau’s recent amendment to Regulation B, which implements the provisions of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act,” the company said...
HMDA Rulemaking on Consumer Advisory Board Agenda. The CFPB has scheduled a Consumer Advisory Board meeting for Feb. 26-27, at the Constitution Center (Auditorium), 400 7th Street SW, Washington, DC. The first day of the event is closed to the public. A close look at the agenda indicates an hour has been set aside for some discussion on a possible Home Mortgage Disclosure Act rulemaking. Speakers scheduled during that session include Mortgage Data Assets Team Lead Ren Essene and Senior Counsel Joan Kayagil. A session later in the day will be...
The Federal Reserve Office of Inspector General will be initiating some sort of audit or evaluation of the reasons the renovation costs for the CFPB’s headquarters building in Washington, DC, have soared to more than three times their original estimate, Inside the CFPB has learned. The OIG responded to a request from Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-NC, a key subcommittee chairman within the House Financial Services Committee structure. “We have received a request from Chairman McHenry of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and...
A number of industry trade groups told the CFPB and other financial regulators that they generally agreed with the regulators’ use of voluntary self-assessments in the interagency diversity standards proposed last fall. However, the American Bankers Association, the Consumer Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Independent Community Bankers of America offered some cautions on vendor diversity standards and confidentiality of reports. Although some commentators had called for incorporating diversity assessments...
Federal regulators have yet to finalize their qualified residential mortgage rulemaking, but housing finance experts are already trying to figure out how lending is going to be affected by the interplay of the QRM rule and the qualified mortgage standard as per the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule. As the new lending environment unfolds, the liability risks associated with non-QM and QRM loans is one of the things that is particularly troublesome to some. “The worse-case scenario that I worry about is that we see a repeat of what we saw in...
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