The Senate voted 67-31 last week to pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2155, moving the deregulation debate to the House, which will look for more aggressive changes to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, said the House would not pass the bill without additional provisions that would further relax regulations introduced after the 2008 financial crisis ...
Proposed changes to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act have become a key flashpoint of controversy in the advancing effort to reform the Dodd-Frank Act. The Senate last week passed legislation that would exempt depository institutions that have relatively small mortgage operations from new HMDA disclosure requirements – and some existing ones – that were mandated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The expanded HMDA reporting regime is taking effect for mortgage (include one data chart) ...
The CFPB recently issued a final rule that the agency said would help mortgage servicers communicate with borrowers facing bankruptcy. The rule amended the timing requirements for servicers to provide periodic statements to consumers in bankruptcy. The rule will go into effect on April 19. At that point, servicers will be required to send monthly billing statements to consumers in active bankruptcy cases and certain cases in which the debtor’s personal liability was previously discharged. To give ...
Former World Acceptance Corp. CEO Janet Lewis Matricciani said she wants to apply for the position of CFPB director in an email to Acting Director Mick Mulvaney. The email was sent on January 24, two days before Matricciani left the company, and she said she wants to run the agency because no one’s better able than her to “understand the need to treat consumers respectfully and honestly, and the equal need to offer credit to lower income consumers.” Just two days before ...
The Mortgage Bankers Association recently met with CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney to discuss CFPB reform priorities regarding the bureau’s requests for information. The MBA wrote to Mulvaney following the meeting to offer further thoughts to improve the agency’s operations. Mulvaney launched a “call for evidence” in January to review the bureau’s enforcement, supervision, rulemaking, and other activities, and has so far issued eight RFIs. MBA said it appreciated the agency’s effort to engage ...
The CFPB’s civil investigative demands seem to be particularly burdensome to small mortgage lenders, as painful experiences were shared via comments responding to the agency’s request for information. The bureau issued a RFI on CIDs in January, a vehicle for the agency to obtain information from people and institutions relevant to an investigation. One mortgage lender that has received one CID said its experience dealing with CIDs is “frustrating, unduly burdensome and particularly disruptive to its…
Promontory MortgagePath Snags Former Top CFPB Attorney to Head Compliance Department. Promontory MortgagePath on Tuesday named former federal regulator Colgate Selden chief compliance officer. Selden comes to the vendor from the Alston & Bird law firm, but before that was senior counsel in the office of regulations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... [Include one brief]
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