If the CFPB does not resume vigorous oversight of credit reporting agencies and furnishers, the states will step up and fill the vacuum, AGs warned.

CFPB advisory committees to meet May 1; borrowers with DTI ratios exceeding 43% barred from California Housing Finance Agency programs; forbearance and foreclosure requirements in Massachusetts.

Attorneys have cautioned mortgage servicers about the potential fair lending risks that may arise from their handling of forbearance and loan-modification requests due to the pandemic.

CFPB examiners continue to work from home; enforcement action against a short-term lender; FTC’s suggestions on the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms.

The CFPB, along with other federal and state regulators, will not criticize financial institutions for certain loan modifications offered to borrowers facing coronavirus-related economic hardships.

Mortgage lenders and servicers are facing compliance challenges due to a patchwork of coronavirus-related forbearance efforts at the federal, state and local levels, according to industry attorneys.

Several states are allowing loan originators to temporarily originate mortgages from unlicensed locations.

CRA proposal comment period extended; enforcement against brokers charging high interest rates; CFPB advisory committee meetings; New York mortgage-related complaints; new servicing requirements.

During a congressional oversight hearing, House Financial Services Committee members grilled CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger on the bureau’s interpretation of the abusiveness standard, plans to reform the qualified-mortgage rule and the controversial RESPA bulletin.

CFPB-Education Department MOU; CFPB’s associate director for research, markets and regulation resigns; Puerto Rico reporting requirements; debt collection event.