In the past, the duty to serve rule has received a great deal of attention from manufactured housing executives who argue the GSEs are not purchasing enough of their loans.
Do TRID-Related Loan Delays Bolster Warehouse Profits? It Looks That Way. Thanks to loan closing delays caused by the new “TRID” integrated disclosure rule, mortgages are staying on warehouse lines longer, increasing profits for banks that play in that space. David Frase, president of warehouse lending for Southwest Bank, Dallas, told IMFnews, an affiliated email newsletter, that “loans are staying on lines longer so we make more money.” Frase, however, said he expects that, in time, the TRID kinks will be worked out and that loan closing times will become more normalized. Southwest’s specialty entails mini-correspondent or “broker to banker” lines of credit. “Turn times are slower and processing times are longer,” said Frase. According to figures compiled by Inside ...
The more consumers complain to the CFPB about their financial services providers, the more likely those providers are to be fined, and the higher those fines are likely to be, new research suggests. For instance, lenders and other financial services providers face a 58 percent chance of being fined when complaints to the CFPB breach the 2,000 threshold for a company, according to an analysis by PerformLine, a “software-as-a-service” marketing compliance company based in Morristown, NJ. Among the other key findings were a 34 percent increase in the number of consumer complaints year-over-year since 2012, and average fines ranging from $134 million (for companies that received 2,000-10,000 complaints) to $758 million (for companies with 10,000+ complaints). Sliced another way, the ...
The ability of mortgage servicers to call struggling borrowers and help them resolve their problems is being compromised by an order from the Federal Communications Commission and needs to be overturned, a trio of industry groups argued in a recently submitted legal brief. The FCC’s order, released June 18, 2015, aims to bolster consumer protections against unwanted telephone calls and texts by, in part, restricting the ability of mortgage servicers, debt collectors and others to make autodialed or prerecorded phone calls without prior express consent of the person called. Violators can be subject to fines of $500 per phone call. A challenge to the FCC’s order is being led by ACA International before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
Sage Bank, a Lowell, MA-based financial institution with less than $200 million in assets, will pay $1.18 million to settle allegations brought by the U.S. Department of Justice that it violated the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act by discriminating in the pricing of its mortgage loans to African-American and Hispanic borrowers. The government accused Sage Bank of charging African-American and Hispanic borrowers higher prices for residential mortgages than similarly situated white borrowers for reasons that had nothing to do with their creditworthiness. “Specifically, under Sage Bank’s pricing policy, each of its loan officers was assigned a target price, which was the price a loan officer was required to achieve on each home loan, regardless of a ...
The House Financial Services Committee held an oversight hearing last week on the Financial Stability Oversight Council, of which the CFPB is a voting member. In response to a softball question tossed in his direction by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-NY, CFPB Director Richard Cordray took advantage of the opportunity to tout the work the bureau does and its relation to addressing systemic risk in the U.S. economy. Velázquez stated: “The CFPB’s core mission is consumer protection, which may not seem linked to systemic risk. However, I don’t think that’s the case. Can you elaborate on what role consumer financial protection plays in the stability in the economy and how your agency’s work helps inform FSOC?” Cordray replied: “It’s worthy of ...
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