The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sought comments on how it can best crack down on what it calls “junk fees.” Our Financial Services & Products Group examines how mortgage servicing is singled out and why mortgage...more
Please join Alston & Bird's consumer finance attorneys and an economist from Charles River Associates as they discuss new legal and practical approaches to fair lending, fair valuations, and fair servicing. This program will...more
1/21/2022
/ Appraisal ,
Appraisal Management Companies ,
Best Practices ,
Bias ,
Continuing Legal Education ,
Fair Lending ,
Fair Valuation ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgages ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Webinars
A&B ABstract: The CFPB’s inconsistent statements about the need for flexibility to address the pandemic suggest a deeper game afoot. CFPB warns that continued COVID flexibility for financial institutions is not prudent… On...more
Among the myriad provisions of H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, is Division FF, Title X, Section 1001, of which mortgage holders and servicers should take note because it may affect activities with respect...more
Moving on from 2020 and building up for 2021. Read our Structured Finance Spectrum, covering safe harbors & remedies, CLOs & QMs, and passive & ESG investing, among other hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in...more
1/11/2021
/ Bankruptcy Code ,
Debt Collection ,
Debtors ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Markets ,
Fraud ,
Lenders ,
Libor ,
Loans ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgages ,
Safe Harbors
A&B Abstract: On July 16, 2020, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services’ (the “Committee”) Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (the “Subcommittee”) held a hearing to discuss mortgage servicers and their...more
A&B Abstract: On April 23, 2020, the attorneys general of 33 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico (the “Attorneys General”) sent two letters, one to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) and the other to the...more