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How could CFPB mortgage servicing proposal impact lenders, borrowers?
Posted Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aims to help homeowners who are struggling financially through a new rule to improve borrower education and remove obstacles to obtaining the assistance necessary to avoid foreclosure. The proposal addresses the potential impact the rule could have on mortgage lending profitability and on mortgage rates.
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Fed orders fintech bank holding company to address ‘significant deficiencies’
Posted Date: Friday, July 26, 2024
Jiko Group Inc. agreed to a cease and desist order issued by the Federal Reserve after examiners identified “significant deficiencies” in the San Franscisco-based fintech’s financial condition. Jiko owns a national bank and various nonbank subsidiaries that develop and service technology platforms for broker-dealers.
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Fannie Mae examines impact of expanded borrower eligibility, loan requirements
Posted Date: Friday, July 26, 2024
Fannie Mae’s 2023 Corporate Responsibility and Impact Report examines the impact of the company’s initiatives focused on social and governance priorities in the housing market, including borrowers in underserved areas.
Issues of credit invisibility and the limited supply of affordable housing continue to be barriers for many would-be homebuyers.
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Banking agencies seek feedback on unnecessary, burdensome regulations
Posted Date: Friday, July 26, 2024
Stakeholders connected to the financial sector will have the opportunity to comment on ways federal banking agencies can reduce regulatory burden for covered entities. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and banking regulators are required to weed out unnecessary, outdated, or unduly burdensome regulatory requirements every 10 years.
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Trade groups weigh in on GDP report, discuss national fraud strategy
Posted Date: Friday, July 26, 2024
The economy is always top-of-mind for the financial sector and the latest report on U.S. gross domestic product warranted an analysis from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s leading expert in that area.
Meanwhile, the country’s largest trade association representing consumer bankers published the results of a roundtable discussion on establishing a national strategy for combatting fraudsters and scam artists.
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FDIC Gov. Hill says possible discount window changes seem ‘dangerous’
Posted Date: Friday, July 26, 2024
As federal banking regulators consider whether banks that use discount windows should be required to post collateral equivalent to a large percentage of their uninsured deposits, at least one member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has reservations about the idea.
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Capital One merger proposal meets staunch pushback during virtual meeting
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The proposed merger between Capital One Financial and Discover Financial Services has ignited some heated debate among industry stakeholders, federal regulators, members of Congress, and consumer advocates. Capital One fielded a slew of opposing viewpoints during a virtual meeting open to the public on July 19.
The day-long virtual event also included finger-pointing directed at federal financial regulators for being too lax in their approval process for mergers of this scale.
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Financial institutions receive ROV guidance from federal agencies
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Financial institutions received guidance from federal regulators on policies and procedures meant to help gather additional information from consumers to be reviewed when addressing reconsiderations of value for residential real estate transactions.
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Regulatory Roundup: Agencies collaborate on AVM quality control standards, AI competition
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Collaboration is a major theme in the real estate finance industry. Federal regulators charged with its oversight are busy coordinating measures aimed at improving policies and procedures designed to enhance and preserve healthy competition, security, and integrity within the financial space shared by mortgage lenders and other financial institutions. Get caught up on some of these collaborative undertakings in this regulatory roundup.
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NCUA maintains federal credit union interest rate despite calls for ‘floating’ rate
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The National Credit Union Administration approved a federal credit union interest rate ceiling of 18 percent at its July 18 meeting, which also included votes on succession planning and incentive-based compensation arrangements. America’s Credit Unions urged the agency to consider adopting a floating interest rate to better accommodate the wide range of rate environments credits unions serve.
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CFPB defines TILA obligations for paycheck advance loan products
Posted Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed an interpretive rule offering guidance to lenders about their legal obligations under the Truth in Lending Act with respect to “earned wage” products, also known as “paycheck advance” loan products. The bureau views these products as part of an emerging market sponsored by employers for employees who need help covering expenses incurred between paychecks.
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Banks urge CFPB to extend data privacy compliance timelines
Posted Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
Banking trade advocates are pressing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to extend the compliance timelines for its highly anticipated final rule implementing consumer data privacy requirements described in Sec. 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Trades express concerns about FHLB lending changes, interchange fee proposal
Posted Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
Financial trade advocates expressed concerns about recent changes announced by the Federal Housing Finance Agency with respect to lending policies for the Federal Home Loan Banks, as well as continuing opposition to the Federal Reserve’s proposed rule amending interchange fee caps. Learn about these issues and more in this roundup.
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Financial services assess impact of digital outage
Posted Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
As news of the digital outage stemming from a software update from a cybersecurity company broke on Friday, July 19, Dodd Frank Update reached out to several financial institutions and trade associations, asking whether they were impacted and to what extent.
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MBA pushes for NDAA amendment to restrict ‘trigger leads’
Posted Date: Friday, July 19, 2024
The Mortgage Bankers Association is pushing for a bill aimed at curbing the use of mortgage credit “trigger leads” to be added to the National Defense Authorization Act as an amendment the organization said will help protect borrowers’ privacy.
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Powell details what labor, inflation conditions mean for interest rates
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell described the Fed’s interpretation of “cooling” labor market conditions and inflation numbers with respect to projections for future reductions to the federal funds rate during his semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress.
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Citigroup fined $135.6M for violating 2020 enforcement action
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Citigroup is facing $135.6 million in penalties from federal banking agencies for violating a 2020 enforcement action. Examiners cited a lack of progress addressing deficiencies with the bank holding company’s data quality and risk management controls.
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California regulators revoke financing license from bankrupt fintech
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
State regulators in California revoked a lender’s financing license after the “banking as a service” fintech filed for bankruptcy and left thousands of its customers without a way to access their funds.
The matter caught the attention of U.S. senators, who wrote a letter to the owners of the company, urging them to immediately restore account access to consumers.
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FHA updates Defect Taxonomy to address third-party fraud, misrepresentation
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Updates to the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Defect Taxonomy aim to address issues of fraud and material misrepresentation involving sponsored third-party originators (TPOs). The updates apply to all FHA Title II Single Family mortgage programs and are effective immediately.
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Regulatory Roundup: Agencies list communities eligible for CRA credit
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Financial institutions interested in earning credit for banking activities covered under the Community Reinvestment Act will be interested in an updated list of eligible underserved communities published by banking regulators. Learn more about this and other recent developments at federal agencies in this regulatory roundup.
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Powell says revised Basel III Endgame proposal is imminent
Posted Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
During his Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell assured lawmakers the Fed intends to revise and repropose its controversial Basel III Endgame risk-based capital standards proposal.
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CFPB fair lending report indicates increase in HMDA reporting violations
Posted Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its annual fair lending report to Congress, detailing the agency’s efforts to combat discrimination and promote fair credit access for all consumers. The report provided examples of how the bureau used its enforcement, supervision, guidance, and rulemaking to uphold fair lending laws in 2023.
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FFIEC publishes 2023 HMDA data on mortgage lending
Posted Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council published data on 2023 mortgage lending transactions reported by 5,113 financial institutions, as required under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, including banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.
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Trades support overturning SEC crypto rule, oppose Fed interchange proposal
Posted Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
Multiple rules finalized by federal regulators have been subject to criticism from financial trade advocates and, in some cases, efforts to nullify their impact via the Congressional Review Act. Financial trade advocates have voiced opposition to several of these rules.
Find out about some of the latest developments with measures seeking to overturn final rules and where certain trade organizations stand with respect to these issues.
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Lawmakers advance bill to overturn updated ‘fiduciary’ definition
Posted Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce voted 23-18 to advance a resolution to overturn a Department of Labor final rule to extend fiduciary status to nearly all financial professionals. Individuals designated as investment advice fiduciaries are required to always act in their clients’ best interests when managing their money.
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Fifth Third faces $20M settlement over fake accounts, sales tactics
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Fifth Third Bank is the subject of a proposed court order filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would require the bank to pay $20 million in penalties, as well as redress to approximately 35,000 consumers harmed as a result of its aggressive sales strategy.
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Agencies approve additional appraisal quality control standards in AVM rule
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Six federal agencies approved a new rule to regulate advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence tools used by an increasing number of appraisers when estimating home values. The rule aims to promote accuracy and prevent unintended bias in automated valuation models.
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Fed Gov. Bowman questions proposed changes to M&A framework, impact on bank consolidation
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The influx of credit unions acquiring banks through established mergers and acquisitions (M&A) procedures has raised alarm bells among banking advocates and caught the attention of federal regulators concerning consolidation in the banking sector.
Not all regulators agree with the approach outlined in the proposal. Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman addressed the potential implications of a more restrictive M&A framework.
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CFPB fair lending official returns to Fannie Mae
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The official who founded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Office of Fair Lending & Equal Opportunity recently left the bureau to return to Fannie Mae, where she spent nearly 12 years as associate general counsel for the enterprise.
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Regulatory Roundup: NCUA extends CDRLF grant deadline, OCC releases CRA exam results
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Community development initiatives are a major focus of federal regulators charged with ensuring financial institutions create a positive impact for the communities they serve.
This regulatory roundup offers a brief overview of newly available information about Community Reinvestment Act examinations and the recent deadline extension for credit unions to apply for grant funding to invest in their communities.
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Senate to consider FY25 NDAA with no language about financial institutions
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Financial industry advocates expressed contentment at the fact the Senate Armed Services Committee’s FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) does not contain any language related to banks or credit unions.
America’s Credit Unions and the Defense Credit Union Council wrote to the committee in June, urging it to keep the NDAA “clean” of any provisions impacting financial services or fess involved in serving military members.
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CFPB Supervisory Highlights covers Sec. 1034 compliance, loan servicing issues
Posted Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s latest Supervisory Highlights focused largely on key findings regarding debt collectors and student loan servicing companies. The report also touched on compliance with Sec. 1034(c) of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which covers consumer information requests for mortgage, deposit and credit card products.
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FHFA, CFPB release loan-level mortgage data from national origination survey
Posted Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Updated loan-level data made public by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Housing Finance Agency offered insight about mortgage performance and credit information gathered from a sample of borrowers from across the country, as well as factors borrowers consider when choosing a mortgage provider.
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Trades push CFPB to extend comment period for medical debt rule
Posted Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Thirteen trade associations requested the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau grant a 30-day extension to the comment period for the bureau’s proposed rule prohibiting medical information from being included in consumer credit reports.
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Senator calls for Congress to work together to pass Farm Bill
Posted Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Echoing views expressed by community banking advocates, Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) stressed the need for movement from Congress toward passing the next iteration of the “Farm Bill.”
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Industry insider details how Chevron decision may impact CFPB, future rulemakings
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
As the financial industry ponders how the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision striking down the 1984 ruling in Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council could impact the regulatory landscape, legal experts point to evidence that the writing was on the wall. Dodd Frank Update spoke with Husch Blackwell Partner Mike G. Silver and gathered feedback from trade advocates about what the industry should expect.
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Fed, FDIC find ‘shortcomings’ in plans submitted by four large banks
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Federal banking regulators identified weaknesses in “living wills” designed by four of the country’s largest federally-insured financial institutions in a report describing the results of a joint annual review of resolution plans submitted by the nation’s largest and most complex financial institutions in 2023. The agencies disagreed about the severity of a weakness identified in plans submitted by Citibank.
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CFPB extends small-business lending rule compliance dates
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interim final rule extending the compliance deadlines for the small-business lending rule, which was finalized in March 2023. The extension was mandated by a Texas federal court to account for the period the rule was stayed pending a potentially impactful Supreme Court decision.
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Webinar: Getting Frank about Data Privacy
Posted Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is paying closer attention than ever to how consumer data is being used and stored by mortgage lenders and other types of financial institutions. In our webinar, “Getting Frank about Data Privacy,” two industry insiders break down the bureau’s rule implementing Sec. 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act and what is necessary to ensure companies are taking proper steps to protect consumers’ private data.
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FTC annual report to CFPB highlights consumer protection enforcement work
Posted Date: Friday, June 28, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission’s annual report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offered insight into its 2023 enforcement actions on consumer protection matters and efforts to educate consumers and businesses on statutes created to protect them against bad actors.
Several portions of the report describe issues involving the Truth in Lending Act, the Consumer Leasing Act, and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act.
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NS3 keynote emphasizes importance of adaptability, resilience, growth in business
Posted Date: Friday, June 28, 2024
Tawn Kelley, executive vice president of Taylor Morrison and president of the company’s financial services arm, delivered the 2024 National Settlement Services Summit (NS3) keynote address. She focused on the importance of adaptability, resilience and the power of personal and professional growth in the face of industry challenges.
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