Well, the good news for the mortgage industry is that someone finally got around to talking about the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act when it came time to file another brief in PHH Corp. v. CFPB. But the bad news: It was the CFPB, and it doubled down on the main arguments it made the first time around, reaffirming its controversial interpretation. The CFPB insisted Director Richard Cordray correctly interpreted the act. First, the agency said PHH’s “kickback scheme” violated RESPA. The interpretation of RESPA by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was incorrect, said the CFPB. “Its crucial error was holding that the meaning of section 8(c)(2) of RESPA – in ...
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The GSEs increased their credit-risk transfers by 30.4 percent in 2016 from the previous year. This means that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both hit their risk-transfer targets by executing different forms of CRTs that covered $548.0 billion of mortgages, according to a recent report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made credit risk transfer a regular part of their business and they continue to improve and expand the scope of their programs and explore different transaction structures,” said FHFA Director Melvin Watt. The FHFA directed the GSEs to transfer credit risk on 90 percent of their targeted business: long-term, fixed-rate mortgages with loan-to-value ratios exceeding 60 percent.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency late last month published its annual GSE Scorecard progress report and noted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have made great strides in meeting their conservatorship goals, including increasing access to mortgage credit and reducing taxpayer risks. Many of the objectives set by the scorecard were focused on testing new concepts or perfecting existing ones, and relatively few of them had hard targets in terms of business volume. The first highlighted strategic goal for the GSEs was maintaining credit availability, including increasing access to credit. There hasn’t been much change in the credit profile of Fannie and Freddie business, and the regulator did not set any specific goals other than the affordable housing goals.
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