Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s civil rights division, said the settlement shows that the DOJ intends to hold “all types of lenders accountable for their role in modern-day redlining.”

No indication yet from federal regulators on when a planned re-proposal of capital requirements for large banks will be issued.

“Without an increase in NMLS processing fees, CSBS staff projected losses of nearly $133 million over the next decade,” CSBS said in a report in response to feedback received on the proposal.

In early September, the FCC released a draft report and order that would establish new safeguards against spoof calls and texts.

The CFPB is looking into whether it’s necessary to recertify a borrower’s ability to repay a rate-term refi as the borrower will be receiving a lower interest rate and mortgage payment and has already proven through a standard mortgage their ability to pay their loan.

Credit unions and small community banks opposed the idea of incentive membership programs at the Federal Home Loan Banks.

A bill to limit trigger leads has bipartisan support and was included in a defense appropriations bill in the Senate during September.

With interest rates declining, mortgage fraud is a growing concern.

A downpayment assistance program “polls great” but “we are just not going to see” it unless Democrats have a supermajority of the Senate, said David Dworkin, president and CEO of the National Housing Conference.

Currently, a handful of states have specific regulations for HEIs and federal oversight is limited as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is evaluating the market.