A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently proposed rules under its home loan guaranty program regarding adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) loans, hybrid ARM (h-ARM) loans and temporary buydown agreements. Comments are...more
It is widely anticipated that the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) will be discontinued in 2021. As LIBOR commonly is used as an index rate for both residential mortgage and consumer loans, its discontinuance has the...more
The CFPB recently published a blog post to advise consumers that LIBOR is expected be eliminated sometime after 2021 and that the change will effect some adjustable-rate loans and lines of credit. ...more
As previously reported, late last year the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB of San Francisco) announced that it would discontinue publishing the 11th District Weighted Average Cost of Funds Index (COFI) after the...more
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLB of San Francisco) recently announced that it will discontinue publishing certain cost of funds indices, including the 11th District Weighted Average Cost of Funds Index...more