News & Analysis as of August 16, 2025

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The term "mortgage" typically refers to a mortgage loan. A mortgage loan is a financing instrument where an individual or business borrows money to purchase property (usually real property) and... more +

California Quickly Enacts New Mortgage Servicing Standards That Can Affect Foreclosures

Alston & Bird on 7/9/2025

What Happened? On June 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law, with an immediate effective date, California Assembly Bill 130, a significant housing bill that, notably renders certain mortgage servicer...more

Licensing Link June 2025 Special Edition

Mayer Brown on 7/3/2025

Licensing Link is a periodic publication that will keep you informed on hot topics and new developments in state licensing laws, and provide practice tips and primers on important issues related to state licensing across the...more

National bank to pay $2 million in mortgage fee violation class action

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/6/2023

On December 19, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted final approval of a settlement in a $2 million class action resolving allegations that a national bank violated California’s Rosenthal...more

A Look at the California DFPI's Debt Collection Oversight Measures Thus Far

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 5/20/2021

Since the California Department of Protection and Financial Innovation's (DFPI) formal establishment at the beginning of this year, a number of issues have come into focus as key agency priorities. Among these, debt...more

California Enacts Consumer Debt Collector Licensing Administered by DFPI

Buchalter on 12/7/2020

During the 2019 legislative session, California enacted SB 908 – the Debt Collection Licensing Act, Financial Code Division 25, Sections 100000, et seq., requiring consumer debt collectors who are collecting on their own...more

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