The American Bankers Association last week issued the first industry call for the CFPB to delay implementation of its pending Home Mortgage Disclosure Act final rule in its entirety, citing compliance difficulties and concerns about consumer data privacy. The call came in a white paper submitted to the Treasury Department as part of the banking industry’s response to President Trump’s executive order earlier this year, EO 13772, outlining “core principles” for financial regulation. The ABA has three main gripes about the HMDA rule, most of which is scheduled to take effect in January 2018. First, it said that collecting all of the required data will be costly. “Although it is not simple to distill the cost estimates from the bureau’s ...