The CFPB last week upped the compliance ante for mortgage servicers by finalizing a number of amendments to its 2013 mortgage servicing regulation that will expand consumer protections while requiring more of servicers. The protections address, among other issues, successors in interest and borrowers in bankruptcy. Under the final rule, servicers will be required to provide certain borrowers with foreclosure protections more than once over the life of the loan. As per the CFPB’s existing rules, a mortgage servicer is required to give borrowers certain foreclosure protections, including the right to be evaluated under the bureau’s requirements for options to avoid foreclosure, only once during the life of the loan. The final rule, however, will require that servicers give those ...