Although RoundPoint isn’t taking any questions regarding a possible sale of the company, it recently published a statement regarding its co-issuance and subservicing businesses.
Mortgage professionals overwhelmingly believe the Dodd-Frank Act should be revised, removing barriers to innovation and to reduce the cost of manufacturing a mortgage.
Fitch said the downgrade was tied to Green Tree’s “aggressive portfolio growth,” noting that the nonbank grew its MSR portfolio by almost three-fold over the past two years.
Although Ocwen is out of compliance with the NYSE, it continues to sell mortgage servicing rights. Late Monday it disclosed a $25 billion MSR sale to Nationstar.
CFPB Updates TRID Documentation. Last week, the CFPB put out some updates to the implementation materials for its integrated disclosure rule under the Truth in Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. The updated material lines up with the rule that was published Feb. 19, 2015, that modifies the 2013 TILA/RESPA integrated disclosure rule (TRID). This rule extends the timing requirement for revised disclosures when consumers lock a rate or extend a rate lock after the Loan Estimate is provided and permits certain language related to construction loans for transactions involving new construction on the LE. Additionally, the bureau is making non-substantive corrections, including citation and cross-reference updates and wording changes for clarification purposes, to various provisions of ...
The CFPB issued a formal notice and request for information on how the credit card market is functioning and the effect credit card protections are having on both issuers and consumers. As per the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act, the CFPB is required to conduct a review of the consumer credit market every two years. Among its focal points, the bureau wants to know how the terms and conditions of credit card agreements have changed since it conducted its review of the credit card market two years ago. “The bureau is looking to see how card issuers may have changed their pricing, marketing, underwriting, or other practices and whether those changes have benefited or harmed consumers,” the ...