The CFPB recently issued a final rule that the agency said would help mortgage servicers communicate with borrowers facing bankruptcy. The rule amended the timing requirements for servicers to provide periodic statements to consumers in bankruptcy. The rule will go into effect on April 19. At that point, servicers will be required to send monthly billing statements to consumers in active bankruptcy cases and certain cases in which the debtor’s personal liability was previously discharged. To give ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, continues to be a pain to CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney. She sent another letter to Mulvaney last week, demanding answers about his leadership of the bureau. Since Mulvaney took over the agency in November 2017, Warren and her colleagues have sent him nine letters including 125 questions and requests. In the most recent letter, Warren accused the acting director of failing to answer or inadequately answering 105 of those questions ...
The Mortgage Bankers Association recently met with CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney to discuss CFPB reform priorities regarding the bureau’s requests for information. The MBA wrote to Mulvaney following the meeting to offer further thoughts to improve the agency’s operations. Mulvaney launched a “call for evidence” in January to review the bureau’s enforcement, supervision, rulemaking, and other activities, and has so far issued eight RFIs. MBA said it appreciated the agency’s effort to engage ...
PHH Corp., which is slated to be bought by Ocwen Financial, is waiting to see if it still has any legal liability from a Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act enforcement matter brought by the CFPB, according to a recent 10-K filing. In January 2018, the en banc court of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reinstated an October 2016 panel decision as it related to RESPA issues, which included vacating the CFPB’s order imposing $109 million of disgorgement ...
The CFPB’s civil investigative demands seem to be particularly burdensome to small mortgage lenders, as painful experiences were shared via comments responding to the agency’s request for information. The bureau issued a RFI on CIDs in January, a vehicle for the agency to obtain information from people and institutions relevant to an investigation. One mortgage lender that has received one CID said its experience dealing with CIDs is “frustrating, unduly burdensome and particularly disruptive to its…
The CFPB issued two more requests for information – one on rulemaking processes, another covering adopted regulations and new rulemaking authorities – as a part of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s “call for evidence.” The bureau first solicited feedback on its rulemaking processes, including initial outreach and information gathering, notices of proposed rulemaking and final rules.For initial outreach and information gathering, the CFPB asked for comments on methods to gather ...
Promontory MortgagePath Snags Former Top CFPB Attorney to Head Compliance Department. Promontory MortgagePath on Tuesday named former federal regulator Colgate Selden chief compliance officer. Selden comes to the vendor from the Alston & Bird law firm, but before that was senior counsel in the office of regulations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ... [Include one brief]
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