When the CFPB assumed RESPA enforcement from HUD in July 2011, it pledged to apply its predecessor’s official commentary, guidance and policy statements until further notice, the brief argues.
While federal regulators issued a final rule setting risk-retention requirements for a variety of MBS and ABS in December 2014, uncertainty regarding implementation persists. Industry participants are seeking guidance from regulators on a variety of issues, including the application of risk retention to asset classes that weren’t prevalent when the Dodd-Frank Act was drafted. “It’s absolutely astonishing how much becomes unclear when you actually sit down to build a risk-retention solution,” Rick Jones, chair of finance and real estate groups at the Dechert law firm, said in a recent commentary. He noted...
Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will likely exceed their regulator-mandated cap on multifamily support in the aggregate, with Fannie already topping its cap and Freddie lagging a bit in comparison. Fannie already has exceeded its scorecard cap for 2015, with three months of the year yet to go. For the first three months of 2015, Fannie issued $32.2 billion in multifamily MBS, according to figures compiled by Inside MBS & ABS. In the third quarter, Fannie issued...
Although some lenders love having a desk in a high-volume Realtor’s office, others loathe the practice. “I lost so much business to those places over the years,” he said. “I refused to pay $5,000 for a desk…”
CFPB Director Richard Cordray had his turn next: “Prophets of doom have warned of delays in closings and the need for consumers to buy longer rate locks because of their failure, or perhaps refusal, tounderstand the requirements of the three-day waiting period,” he said.
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