The Federal Reserve will likely set aside proposed revisions of Truth in Lending Act regulations, including borrowers’ right to rescind flawed mortgage loans, until the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is fully operational and has completed integrating disclosures under TILA and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. Leonard Chanin, deputy director of the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs, reportedly told attorneys at a meeting in Naples, FL, that the Fed is suspending…
Any rule that threatens compensation in the mortgage business is likely to generate much attention – and a lot of questions. Compliance experts Kris Kully, of counsel with K&L Gates, Richard Andreano, a partner with Patton Boggs, and David Hay, vice president and associate general counsel of SunTrust Mortgage, had their hands full as they fielded...
Property owners whose lien subordination requests were denied because they chose to refinance with another lender are seeking class status in a lawsuit against their primary lender, PNC Bank. Although the proper defendant is PNC Bank, the complaint refers to the actions of National City Bank, which PNC acquired...
House Republican leaders have started to make good on a post-election promise to deconstruct the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-TX, chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, has requested...
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection is expected to hire a private firm to develop a new, simplified form integrating mortgage disclosures required under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Truth in Lending Act. About 80 percent of disclosures mandated by both TILA and RESPA will be whittled...
The mortgage financing industry will push harder in 2011 for less stringent risk-retention regulations, harmonized mortgage disclosures and certain regulatory relief issues facing industry participants. Rulemakings, mostly implementing provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, must not...
Maryland. Fannie Mae has announced an increase in attorney’s fees for non-judicial foreclosures for properties located in Maryland. For loans referred to an attorney on or after Feb. 1, the maximum allowable attorney’s fees for legal work related to non-judicial foreclosures will...
Federal Housing Administration Anti-Flipping Waiver Extended. The FHA has extended its temporary anti-flipping waiver to hasten the resale of foreclosed homes in neighborhoods with high foreclosure rates. With certain exceptions, current FHA regulation prohibits insuring a mortgage on a home owned by the seller for less than 90 days. Early last year, the FHA temporarily set...
The Mortgage Bankers Association has filed suit in federal court in Washington, DC, to overturn a controversial rule interpretation on overtime for mortgage loan officers issued by the Department of Labor last year. The lawsuit challenges procedures the DOL followed...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) handed the mortgage industry something to crow about regarding the validity of mortgage loan assignments in foreclosure cases – which, ironically, may not amount to a hill of beans beyond the Bay State, according to compliance experts. Contrary to claims of consumer victory and negative implications for the mortgage industry, the SJC in U.S. Bank National Association v. Ibanez held...
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