A staggering 15.8 percent of the island commonwealth’s FHA loans were more than 90 days late as of Dec. 31, and another 13.0 percent were 30-90 days in arrears.
Despite the fear expressed by consumer advocates that CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney might give financial service industry participants a “get out of jail free” card upon request, the bureau recently filed a motion in opposition to the request of Nationwide Biweekly Administration, a biweekly mortgage payment company, to alter, amend or vacate the prior judgment against the firm. This past September, the CFPB won one and lost one in a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in the case. The agency won a $7.9 million civil penalty from the defendants. However, it lost out on $74 million in sought-after restitution. The bureau also originally insisted the defendants post a bond, even though that ...
It’s likely that mortgage lenders and servicers will get some degree of consideration and accommodation from the CFPB during the Trump administration, thanks to some reviews the bureau is required to make of its major rulemaking as per the Dodd-Frank Act. “The Dodd-Frank Act requires the CFPB to look back and conduct an assessment of each significant rule not later than five years after its effective date,” said former CFPB official Benjamin Olson, now a partner in the Washington, DC, office of the Buckley Sandler law firm, during a webinar last week sponsored by Inside Mortgage Finance. The purpose of this assessment is to look at the effectiveness of the rule in meeting its purposes and objectives under the statute ...
Consumer complaints to the CFPB about mortgage-related issues are on the verge of a free-fall, with volumes dropping by double digits, quarterly and annually, in every category tracked, according to a new analysis and ranking by Inside the CFPB. For starters, total gripes fell 15.9 percent from the third quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter, and by 27.8 percent year over year. Digging into specific kinds of complaints, criticisms about loan modifications mirrored those trend lines, dropping 15.3 percent from 3Q17 to 4Q17, and by 29.2 percent on an annual basis. When it came to mortgage servicing, consumer kvetching was on a parallel track, down 13.0 percent and 26.4 percent, quarter over quarter and year over year, respectively. In ...
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