In their recent exchange of letters, Sen. Corker articulated a handful of serious concerns with the TRID rule, while Cordray reiterated the ways the bureau has tried to help the industry…
MBA chief David Stevens told Inside The GSEs that given the recent growth in the nonbank servicing sector, it’s appropriate for regulatory authorities to ensure these institutions are effectively supervised.
The New Jersey-based Freedom is no ordinary FHA lender. According to Inside FHA/VA Lending it ranked third nationwide in FHA production last year with $4.52 billion.
The mortgage industry and supporters on Capitol Hill are keeping up the heat on the CFPB, urging the powerful consumer regulator to issue official guidance on TRID disclosure errors and assignee liability as problems continue to plague the non-agency secondary market. David Stevens, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, said recently: “As one who believes that the bureau has done a lot of good work, it is a phenomenon to me that the simple request for clarity to specific questions we have submitted, amidst the clear and fact-based challenges facing responsible lending in its focus on efforts to be compliant, is being met with such resistance.” According to the MBA chief, this isn’t just lenders bellyaching. “This is ...
According to recent interviews, problems persist in the secondary mortgage market because certain jumbo investors won’t buy loans even if there’s just one, minor TRID error. At least one lender – W.J. Bradley Mortgage in Colorado – has closed (in part) because of TRID-related snafus tied to jumbo loan sales. Meanwhile, there’s new speculation that as many as four more lenders, all nonbanks, are contemplating filing for bankruptcy protection because non-agency product is stuck on their warehouse lines. No names have been mentioned so far, and it could be that talk of bankruptcy protection is premature and being looked at as a last resort. On the other hand, the secondary market for TRID “scratch-and-dent” loans is “still going fast and furious,” said ...
Respondents to a recent survey conducted by Campbell Surveys and sponsored by Inside Mortgage Finance, an affiliated newsletter, provided a down-in-the-trenches perspective on broader conceptual and philosophical concerns trade group officials in Washington, DC, often talk about when it comes to the CFPB’s integrated disclosure rule. Survey respondents were asked about the effect TRID was having on their closings. Some representative comments follow: On confidentiality issues, one agent said, “I do not like TRID at all. The closing disclosures cannot be shared. How can we as agents verify all information is correct? Buyers’ agents cannot verify before closing that their commission is correct as well. It’s a complete mess on all ends.” Another agent said, “The biggest problem with TRID ...
Kroll Bond Rating Agency warned recently that it might refuse to rate certain non-agency mortgage- backed securities subject to the TRID mortgage disclosure rule until the CFPB issues formal guidance.The rating service said it’s currently unclear whether certain corrections of errors under the bureau’s integrated disclosure rule will subject non-agency MBS investors to assignee liability. This is an issue that the Structured Finance Industry Group continues to work on, with SFIG also stressing that formal guidance from the CFPB is necessary. “In instances where these violations go un-corrected by an originator, KBRA believes the risks associated with TRID-eligible loans, in material concentration, become more significant and that KBRA may consider additional credit enhancement, applying a rating cap, or declining ...
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not conducting loan-level reviews for compliance with the CFPB’s integrated disclosure, and that threatens investors in the pair’s future credit-risk transfer transactions with the possibility of some modest losses because of lender compliance violations, according to a recent report from Moody’s Investor Service. “We expect overall losses on these transactions owing to TRID violations to be fairly small, despite our expectations that the frequency of violations will be high, at least initially,” analysts at the rating service said. “Furthermore, lender representations and warranties and the government-sponsored enterprises’ ability to remove defective loans from the transactions will likely mitigate some of these losses.” Damages for TRID violations are less significant for a securitization transaction compared ...
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