The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took its first legal action over alleged violation of the new loan originator compensation rule last week, bringing suit against Castle & Cooke Mortgage, a Utah-based nonbank, and two top executives. The CFPB claims that the defendants had an unwritten policy of paying quarterly bonuses to loan officers based on a formula that rewarded the origination of mortgages with high interest rates, “thus incentivizing loan officers to steer consumers into mortgages with less favorable terms, the very practice the compensation rule sought to prohibit,” said the CFPB’s complaint. Overall, the firm paid...
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs this week approved bipartisan legislation to strengthen FHA solvency and oversight authority over lenders, paving the way toward dealing with the larger issue of housing finance reform. Introduced by Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-SD, and Ranking Minority Member Mike Crapo, R-ID, the FHA Solvency Act (S. 1376) passed by a vote of 21-1. The approved bill included...
State and federal regulators appear to be close to getting more servicers to agree to a settlement similar to the $25 billion deal agreed to by five big banks.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency withdrew a proposed rule it was forced to issue regarding Property Assessed Clean Energy programs after prevailing in court.
The Senate won't vote on the nomination of Rep. Mel Watt, D-NC, for director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, before leaving for its August recess.
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