Real Estate Transactions, Financial Institutions, Consumer Lenders

CFPB Proposes New “Streamlined” Mortgage Servicing Rules

Troutman Pepper on 7/15/2024

As we predicted here, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) last week proposed new and, in some cases, streamlined rules governing what mortgage servicers must do after a borrower becomes delinquent. The...more

2023 HMDA Modified Loan Application Data Published

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/27/2024

The CFPB recently announced the publication of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Modified Loan Application Data for 2023. The data is available on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) website....more

New CRA Retail Lending Test Benchmarks

GeoDataVision on 3/18/2024

The Retail Lending Test in the new CRA will measure bank performance against “market” benchmarks (lending activity reported by other lenders) and “community” benchmarks” (community demographics). Many bankers, although not...more

Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - October 2023 # 4

Troutman Pepper on 10/25/2023

To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

NYDFS requires regulated institutions to submit plans describing preparations for LIBOR transition by Feb. 7

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/9/2020

The New York Department of Financial Services has sent a letter to the institutions that it regulates requiring each such institution, by February 7, 2020, to provide to DFS a description of its “plan to address its LIBOR...more

CFPB eClosing project update

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/7/2015

On August 5, 2015, the CFPB issued a report on its study of the CFPB’s mortgage loan eClosing project and held a public forum addressing the study results. As we reported, the CFPB launched the eClosing project to determine...more