The CARES Act provided historic, temporary relief to mortgage holders facing Covid-19-related financial troubles. R. Aaron Chastain, partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, looks at where mortgage lenders and servicers...more
11/10/2020
/ Borrowers ,
Business Ownership ,
CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Financial Distress ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Forbearance Agreements ,
GSE ,
Homeowners ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgages ,
Relief Measures
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently issued a sweeping moratorium on most evictions through the end of 2020 as a means to stop the spread of COVID-19, which will go into effect on September 4, 2020. According to...more
9/8/2020
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Commerce Clause ,
Contracts Clause ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Due Process ,
Eviction ,
Foreclosure ,
Landlords ,
Moratorium ,
Property Owners ,
Public Health Service Act ,
Takings Clause ,
Tenants
On June 30, 2020, Oregon joined D.C., Massachusetts, and New York in passing state-specific COVID-19 mortgage assistance programs into law. This new law further confuses the patchwork quilt of compliance issues for mortgage...more
The CFPB recently issued its “Consumer Reporting FAQs Related to the CARES Act and COVID-19 Pandemic,” addressing 10 credit reporting issues. While the FAQs provide some much-needed clarity for furnishers of information and...more
On June 17, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed one of the most far-reaching COVID-19 mortgage assistance state programs yet into law. Affected servicers and lenders will soon need to decide whether they should find a way to...more
6/23/2020
/ Compliance ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Contracts Clause ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Forbearance Agreements ,
Governor Cuomo ,
Loan Modifications ,
Loss Mitigation ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Relief Measures
The CFPB’s April 1, 2020, statement regarding credit reporting for loans affected by COVID-19 announced a “flexible supervisory and enforcement approach during this pandemic.” In addition to guidance regarding furnishing...more
We’ve been tracking regulatory developments related to credit reporting for loans where borrowers have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. On April 1, the CFPB issued a statement about credit reporting for loans...more
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Consumer Financial Protection...more
Operating a financial institution is always a challenge, but the COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a unique set of overlapping and sometimes conflicting concerns for mortgage originators and servicers. Here is what we know as...more
Like the country and economy at large, the COVID-19 pandemic is significantly impacting secondary education and the student lending industry. In response to the pandemic, colleges across the country closed their campuses,...more
We previously blogged about the push among lawmakers and regulators to encourage or force financial institutions to cease providing adverse credit reporting on consumer loans where the delinquency or default may be related to...more
Although the major federal banking and consumer lending regulatory industries have issued a joint statement indicating “that financial institutions should work constructively with borrowers and other customers in” areas...more