“We are extremely concerned that, one year after the CFPB’s mortgage servicing rules went into effect, we are still finding runarounds and illegal dual-tracking,” said agency Director Richard Cordray.
J.P. Wieske, legislative liaison and public information officers for the WIC, confirmed that the state has made an information request, but would not address content.
The CRC believes the pool of aspiring homeowners does not have affordable financing options comparable to the liquidity provided to investors that are buying up homes en masse...
On the heels of a final ruling this week where a federal judge said the government went too far in its takeover of American International Group as part of its 2008 bailout, some are comparing the lawsuit to the one bought by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders. In this ruling, the federal judge decided not to award damages to AIG shareholders, even as it said the government was wrong in taking a 79.9 percent stake in the company in exchange for an $85 billion loan that helped keep the company on firm ground during the downturn. Judge Thomas Wheeler believed shareholders did not need to be compensated because AIG...
If you are advertising or marketing mortgage products in Spanish, compliance experts suggest you should provide all requisite disclosures and servicing in Spanish.
There is a surprising number of smaller mortgage lenders who think they can comply with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s pending integrated-disclosure rule with a substantial amount of manual practices and processes – as opposed to technological automation – and they may well be in for a rude awakening when the new rule kicks in. According to Rod Alba, senior regulatory counsel at the American Bankers Association, approximately one quarter of ...
The outstanding supply of single-family MBS declined 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2015, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS market analysis. But that didn’t stop commercial banks from continuing to increase their holdings. Banks increased their aggregate MBS holdings by 3.1 percent from the fourth quarter, pushing their share of the MBS market to 22.9 percent. The only other investor group that managed to increase its stake was the credit union industry, which posted a 1.6 percent increase from the previous quarter. The Federal Reserve finally loosened...