CFPB Senior Advisor John Czwartacki said: “The bureau’s statutory mandate includes the supervision and enforcement of fair lending laws and regulations … the bureau will continue to perform those functions.”
Bill Maloni, a retired Fannie executive who’s been tracking the reform debate for years, believes the Corker bill, if enacted as is, eventually will place the secondary market in the hands of the megabanks.
Calabria is a former director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank that would like to do away Fannie and Freddie…
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau threw a substantial bone to mortgage lenders and servicers, issuing a formal request for information on the civil investigative demands it has used extensively, and controversially, under the leadership of its former director, Richard Cordray.
The mortgage servicing rules promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continue to be a source of headaches for many in the industry, particularly in the context of bankruptcy proceedings. Late last week, the Consumer Mortgage Coalition wrote CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney, detailing three of its primary concerns in this regard.
The en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Wednesday in favor of PHH Mortgage in its long-running legal dispute with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over issues tied to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.
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