The bureau has clarified that the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act prohibits digital mortgage comparison platforms from steering shoppers to lenders using “pay-to-play tactics.”

An appeals court agreed with the CFPB’s argument that its pre-paid rule doesn’t impose mandatory model clauses. Instead, it provides companies the option to use model language or other “substantially similar” wording.

The Community Home Lenders of America wants small mortgage lenders to be exempt from the CFPB’s proposed registry of nonbank form contracts when their compliance burdens substantially outweigh consumer benefit.

The CFPB and other regulators in a joint comment letter raised concerns that the most recent draft of the Appraisal Foundation’s guidelines for appraisers removes clarity on federal discrimination prohibitions.

The study found that the Community Reinvestment Act has had little effect on the level of household borrowing in low- to moderate-income census tracts and on lending in different debt categories.

TransUnion in talks with the CFPB and FTC to settle charges; medical collections declined in the past four years; CHLA seeks exemption for members from CFPB’s “repeat offender” registry.

The CFPB sued Chicago-based Townstone Financial in 2020, alleging that statements made on its radio show discouraged Black prospective applicants from applying for mortgage loans.

The CFPB proposal includes lowering the safe-harbor late fees companies can charge consumers and seeks to eliminate automatic annual inflation adjustment of the safe harbor.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a district court order that sided with the CFPB over mortgage payment company Nationwide Biweekly Administration.

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra reiterated his long-held argument that automation alone cannot remove bias from home appraisals. Others discussed actions to address appraisal bias.