The consolidation tidal wave approaches ... or maybe not...

Mulvaney signaled his intention to send more CFPB guidance to elected officials for congressional review.

Candidates for the job have included Kevin Shavers, Robert Broeksmit and others…

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney said last week that the bureau will reexamine Obama-era regulations that protect consumers from discrimination in credit transactions. Mulvaney released a statement praising efforts by Congress and the White House to repeal bureau guidance that suggests indirect auto lenders are subject to liability under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. He then said the bureau will reexamine the requirements of the ECOA ...

Congress has sealed the deal on Dodd-Frank reform with a 258-159 vote last week in the House. Thirty-three House Democrats voted in favor of the reg relief bill, which President Trump promptly signed into law. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act passed the Senate in March on a bipartisan 67-31 vote. The House approved S. 2155 last week without making any amendments. …

The nation’s 12th largest servicer of home mortgages is in danger of getting booted off the NYSE.

The FHFA argues: "In contrast, other federal safety and soundness regulators have statutory authority to examine companies that provide services to depository institutions..."

The regulatory relief bill which last week became law makes changes to the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule, and attorneys expect that more major changes will come from the bureau’s reassessment of the qualified-mortgage standards. The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act will allow financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets to offer mortgages that don’t meet all the requirements of the QM rule, such as ...

Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney has said he wants to end the bureau’s “regulation by enforcement,” but a recent case filing shows that the agency is not necessarily scaling back its enforcement efforts with respect to novel legal interpretations, industry attorneys said. At issue is a case brought by the CFPB against D&D Marketing, a marketing company. The case was filed in 2015 under former Director Richard Cordray, for alleged unfair, deceptive, and abusive ...

Small nonbanks want the CFPB to exercise the risk-based approach to supervision mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, arguing that regulators don’t understand the sector’s business model. A group of over 50 lenders sent a letter to the CFPB last week asking the bureau to exempt smaller independent mortgage bankers from its examinations and audits. They argued that the Dodd-Frank Act requires the agency to exercise risk-based supervision, taking into ...