The Structured Finance Association warned the CFPB's servicing proposal would decrease the value of mortgage servicing rights, leading to a substantial negative impact on the secondary mortgage market.
“After reviewing the comments and reconsidering the proposed rule’s substantive and procedural amendments, FHFA has determined that a number of material changes to the rule are necessary,” the agency said.
The revamped rules allowed lenders to use a wider variety of standards to meet ATR and qualified-mortgage requirements while also introducing some uncertainty on whether specific loans comply with ATR standards.
The New Jersey-based bank was alleged to have restricted mortgage lending services and credit access to certain neighborhoods from 2018 through at least 2022.
“These rules must be updated, and your efforts to stop regulators from doing so is unjustified and harmful,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Maxine Waters wrote in a letter to the Chamber of Commerce and the American Bankers Association.