Financial entities who fail to comply with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act’s requirements are at risk of enforcement actions by a future Democratic administration or at the state level.
All work at the CFPB, including supervision and examination activities, has ceased following an order by the bureau’s new acting director. Several rulemakings are also on pause.
The order, reached following a scheduling conference, also prohibits the administration from deleting data held by the CFPB and from transferring money from the bureau’s reserve funds.
Federal regulation is needed for data privacy, earned wage access products and artificial intelligence, industry experts say. But states may end up carrying the ball on some of these issues plus others.
The stay for now only applies to some lenders. But a pending court ruling in a Kentucky lawsuit against the bureau’s Section 1071 rule could stay compliance with the rule for all covered entities.