The Mortgage Bankers Association last week wrote the CFPB and other government regulators and agencies to warn that a rule adopted by the Federal Communications Commission last year could harm mortgage servicers when they try to provide early intervention with homeowners who are delinquent on their mortgages. The FCC’s order aims to bolster consumer protections against unwanted telephone calls and texts by, in part, restricting the ability of mortgage servicers, debt collectors and others to make autodialed or prerecorded phone calls without prior express consent of the person called. Violators can be subject to fines of $500 per phone call. But according to the MBA, the rule “threatens to expose mortgage servicers to significant and possibly unavoidable liability when they ...