The CFPB Office of Inspector General has taken on a new planned project to evaluate the effectiveness of efforts by the bureau’s Office of Consumer Response to share complaint data within the regulatory agency, according to the latest OIG work plan, released last week. “Specifically, this project will examine the extent to which [the Office of] Consumer Response is achieving its objective to share useful complaint data and analysis with internal stakeholders and Consumer Response’s controls over access and distribution of shared complaint data, which can contain sensitive consumer information,” the OIG said.The Office of Consumer Response is responsible for sharing complaint data with internal stakeholders within the CFPB in order to help the bureau supervise companies, enforce federal ...
As previously reported, the only area of mortgage-related consumer complaints that saw an increase in the second quarter was servicing, which saw a jump of 17.5 percent. But a deeper dive into the data shows a more complex and nuanced performance by the industry during that period of time, one perhaps dominated by extremes. As the chart on the following page illustrates, a handful of companies saw triple digit increases from the first quarter to the second, with Bayview Loan Servicing leading the way with a 152.6 percent surge. There was also a second tier of big increases in the upper double digits, led by TD Bank, which registered a leap of 90.9 percent...
New Residential has purchased several servicing portfolios over the past year, acquiring rights from CitiMortgage, Walter/Ditech and United Shore, among others.
“This new trove of documents conclusively shows that the net worth sweep was designed solely to boost Treasury’s coffers and prevent the GSEs from rebuilding capital or exiting conservatorship,” said Investors Unite, a shareholder rights group.
Fannie said that about 3 or 4 percent of DU applications with DTI ratios ranging from 45 percent to 50 percent had been deemed ineligible because they failed the overlay test…
New documents were recently unsealed in Fairholme Funds vs. United States that give GSE shareholders more hope in proving the Treasury sweep was designed with an ulterior motive in mind.“The release of these documents is a very positive development in the case against Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac]. These documents fatally undermine the government’s claim,” said Pete Patterson, a partner with the Cooper & Kirk law firm representing the plaintiffs. Officials from Treasury have repeatedly said that the sweep was designed to prevent the two mortgage giants from collapsing. But the latest batch of 33 confidential emails and memos released under court order appears to illustrate otherwise.
Fannie Mae’s announcement in May that it will raise the debt-to-income cap from 45 to 50 percent is a win for expanding access to credit, especially for minority families, says a recent report by the Urban Institute.UI anticipates that as many as 95,000 new mortgages could be approved annually. With African-American and Latino families more likely to have DTI ratios above 45 percent, the authors of the paper note that a large share of the new loans will likely be to those families. Prior to the change, Fannie allowed for flexibility up to 50 percent DTI in certain cases.
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