Banking regulators believe delinquency rates on HELOCs soon may rise sharply upward as a significant number of second liens reach the end of their draw period.
Nationstar's new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission offers little in the way of information on the terms of the new $1 billion facility.
The CFPB’s ability-to-repay qualified mortgage rule is steaming full speed ahead with January implementation, and that has anxious lenders appealing to sympathetic ears on Capitol Hill for relief, one way or another. During a hearing earlier this month before the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV, raised with CFPB Director Richard Cordray concerns she’s been hearing from some of her mortgage lender constituents about the bureau’s pending mortgage rules, including the ATR/QM. During a roundtable she held...
Mortgage lending trade group representatives are ramping up the crescendo of industry calls for the CFPB to make even more changes to its pending mortgage rules, or for an implementation delay, or both. It’s not easy to satisfy them, though, which some industry participants will privately concede. On the one hand, the industry keeps pressing for numerous changes and revisions, yet on the other hand, complains that each new change or revision further complicates their efforts to get into compliance. Be that as it may, the calls...
It’s now being said that consumer complaints may be the biggest regulatory threat companies face in the era of the CFPB, perhaps especially so for those operating in the mortgage sector. So a fully competent compliance management system will be essential for companies striving to comply with the bureau’s mortgage servicing requirements; otherwise, they likely face fines and/or disgorgement. But a solid CMS is only the means to an end, and it all boils down to better communication with the borrower, top industry and vendor...
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