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On August 18, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced a $2.3 million settlement with a former mortgage lender and servicer for alleged violations of the California Residential...more
What Happened? Effective August 29, 2026, Pennsylvania enacted House Bill 1103 (the “Bill”) impacting discount points on residential mortgage loans by making amendments to Pennsylvania’s usury code (the Loan Interest and...more
What Happened? On May 13 and 14, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law three measures that amend or expand existing consumer financial protections for Georgians, and impact mortgage lending and servicing as follows....more
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed legislation that will impact the banking and financial services industries in the state. It becomes effective July 1, 2025. The Georgia General Assembly adjourned the 2025 legislative...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a portfolio letter on its strategy for mortgage intermediaries setting out the areas of regulatory focus for the next two years. The FCA's overarching focus is on embedding...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to the mortgage industry. There was also a flurry of last-minute action by the CFPB in the mortgage space in the waning days of the Biden...more
On June 4, 2024, the CFPB issued its Semi-Annual Report to Congress covering the period beginning April 1, 2023 and ending September 30, 2023. On June 12, 2024, CFPB Director Chopra appeared before the Senate Banking...more
The CFPB has launched an inquiry into so-called “junk fees” charged by mortgage providers and related settlement services, to better understand why closing costs continue to rise and the impact of such fees on borrowers and...more
On May 30, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued a request for information (Request) regarding alleged “junk fees” in closing costs charged by mortgage lenders and related settlement service...more
On May 30, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a Request for Information (RFI) regarding mortgage closing costs. The seven-page RFI provided nine questions about the impact of closing costs, and how they...more
Recent releases from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) show that the mortgage industry is in the crosshairs of the CFPB's campaign against so-called junk fees. Earlier this year, the CFPB indicated its interest...more
In the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB’s”) most recent Supervisory Highlights, published on April 24th, the agency identified a wide variety of fees that were improperly charged to mortgage borrowers. As...more
Continuing its vigorous effort to eliminate so-called “junk fees,” and detailing other problematic mortgage servicer activities, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently released its Spring 2024 Supervisory...more
What Happened? Immediately following President Biden’s State of the Union Address announcing plans to lower homebuyer and refinancing costs, the CFPB issued a blog post seeking public input on how mortgage closing costs...more
On March 8, 2024, the CFPB issued a blog post signaling a new front in its focus on “junk fees”—mortgage closing costs. Notably, the CFPB suggests that title insurance, credit report and appraisal, origination, and other...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state authorities have agreed to a consent order with a large national bank to resolve allegations that the bank engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by affecting...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2023 applicable to mortgage along with some additional related information. ...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior and current month covered during the January 2024 webinar....more
The national and administrative focus on advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities keeps fair servicing in the foreground as a top priority for mortgage servicers. In this webinar, you’ll hear from a...more
In this Issue. In one of its first acts after being installed on January 20, the Biden Administration issued a regulatory freeze on new agency rules that have been adopted but are not yet effective; in one of its final acts...more
It is no surprise to anyone involved in consumer lending that laws designed to protect consumers from inception of the loan relationship through collection of the loan following default vary greatly from state to state and...more
On December 18, 2019, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued its Final Regulations detailing the business conduct rules for mortgage loan servicers. ...more
Texans approved a constitutional amendment changing the state’s home equity loan landscape beginning January 1. Our Financial Services & Products Group examines the new law and its implications and limitations....more
Georgia revised provisions under the Residential Mortgage Act, including, but not limited to, the following: An applicant for a mortgage lender license must provide a bond of $250,000, previously $150,000. This will...more
In a decision that should be read as a warning to mortgage industry participants doing business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the state’s high court has validated a condominium associations’ so-called “rolling”...more