The American Bankers Association’s letter to Secretary Treasury Steve Mnuchin also detailed a handful of key changes it said the CFPB should make to its controversial Truth-in-Lending Act/Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule. First, the bureau ought to revise the TRID tolerances. Currently, the rule requires creditors to observe closing cost tolerances that prohibit fees from increasing beyond initial disclosures by specific amounts. “TRID’s cost tolerance system is extremely convoluted, operating under a three-prong tolerance system that contains uncertain exemptions and rules for corrections,” the trade group said. “ABA believes that the current tolerance system should be entirely eliminated and replaced with a single tolerance standard of 10 percent, with more focused applicability.”Under this proposal, a ...
The Mortgage Bankers Association called on the CFPB to delay the Jan. 1, 2018, effective date for its new and expanded data collection and reporting requirements under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.“Considering the fact that much remains to be done by the CFPB, including rules and deliverables, MBA respectfully urges the bureau to delay these amendments and the final rule for at least one year in order to provide the bureau and HMDA reporters with sufficient time to complete, implement and test their data collection and reporting processes,” the trade group said in a comment letter to the agency. The additional time “will allow several necessary actions and relevant materials to be delivered by the bureau in time for ...
The full House of Representatives is scheduled to vote sometime this week – perhaps as early as Tuesday evening – on H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, Inside the CFPB has learned. The exact day the vote will occur had not been set as of press time, but it will likely take place after the House Rules Committee formally provides a structured amendment process for the legislation. That is slated to take place sometime in the evening on Tuesday, June 6. H.R. 10, introduced earlier this year by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, was passed out of committee early last month. Prospects in the Senate are slim, however, because the Republicans just do not have the votes ...
A new industry poll found that most registered voters (58 percent) in key battleground states agreed that the CFPB should be run by a bipartisan commission, such as that at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Just 14 percent said the bureau should keep its current single-director leadership structure. The poll of voters in Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and West Virginia was conducted in May by Morning Consult and commissioned by the Consumer Bankers Association, the Independent Community Bankers of America, and the American Land Title Association. Morning Consult also found that three in five voters agreed that a commission would make the CFPB fairer (63 percent), more representative (62 percent), more accountable (62 percent), and more ...
Mortgage lenders in the U.S. seem to be in a better frame of mind when it comes to their ability to comply with new regulations and to operate in the post-election environment, according to a study from Lenders One, a cooperative of independent mortgage bankers, correspondent lenders and suppliers of mortgage products and services. “Lenders are ready for new regulatory requirements, such as updates to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, with two-thirds (65 percent) indicating they are very prepared for HMDA changes,” Lenders One said. However, the biggest HMDA compliance challenge for lenders involves the additional resources needed to report transactional data, such as home equity lines of credit and dwelling-secured loans for apartments, the survey found. “While lenders are ...
The cost of complying with the plethora of mortgage regulations, including the high-profile rules promulgated by the CFPB, consume nearly a quarter of lenders’ operating revenue and hurt both sellers and buyers with extended closing delays. Those were some of the chief findings of a survey performed by mortgage market research expert Tom Lamalfa, president of TSL Consulting, Cleveland Heights, OH, at the Mortgage Bankers Association National Secondary Market Conference in May. The results were distributed to MBA members last week via email. Among the questions posed to survey participants was, “Compliance costs consume about what percentage of your total operating expenses?” Of the 31 executives who responded, the average was 21.4 percent of total operating expenses. “The ranges were ...
Oral arguments in PHH Corp. et al. v CFPB were recently held by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and reactions to the proceedings were all over the map, suggesting to some that the event functioned like a legal Rorschach test. FBR Capital Markets & Co. analyst Edward Mills said in a client note he thinks the case is bound for the U.S. Supreme Court, probably sometime next year. “Given the makeup of the en banc panel [mostly Democrat appointees], we would give a bias to the previous ruling to be overturned,” Mills said. “Despite the headlines from the ruling, we fully expect that either party will appeal the case to the Supreme Court, which ...
CFPB Web Site Still Insecure, OIG Finds. Despite the work the CFPB has done to secure its consumerfinance.gov website, it hasn’t been enough, according to a report released last week by the bureau’s Office of Inspector General, which found that several control deficiencies need to be mitigated to protect the website from compromise.... Mortgage Complaints Among the Top for Older Consumers. Debt collection, home equity conversion mortgages (or reverse mortgages) and credit reporting were the top three most-complained-about consumer financial products and services among seniors, collectively representing about 60 percent of older consumer complaints submitted in March 2017, the CFPB said in its latest monthly consumer complaint report....
Capital Alpha projects that the “emerging reform thrust” might emulate ideas promulgated by the Mortgage Bankers Association, which is adamantly opposed to recap and release.
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