Tag Archives: CFPB

The report covers the illegal practices that the Bureau uncovers in areas such as consumer reporting, debt collection, student loan servicing, mortgage origination, mortgage servicing, and fair lending for the first four months of the year.

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing this week as part of a continued investigation of allegations that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) discriminated against employees and subsequently retaliated against the whistleblowers, according to an announcement on the House Financial Services Committee website.

As a mortgage banker, originator or servicer, you may be thinking, “Can the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) interfere with my supplier and service provider relationships?” If you’re asking that question, it is useful to learn more about the CFPB’s vendor oversight expectations. Editor's note: This select print feature is scheduled to appear in the July 2015 issue of DS News, available on July 1.

Upon the receiving the news of the CFPB's proposed two-month delay, many lenders, servicers, and other industry members weighed in with their feedback in interviews with DS News, with many expressing their gratitude and detailing the company adjustments they plan to initiate if the proposal is approved.

This announcement comes just two weeks after the CFPB announced that a grace period will be in effect for those servicers attempting to comply in good faith with the TRID requirements that are scheduled to go into effect August 1. While the CFPB did not push back the August 1 implementation date of the rule, it attempted to ease some of those concerns by saying it would take into account a company's good faith effort to comply with the rule after it goes into effect.

For the CFPB, the bill includes a provision that will bring the agency under the annual Congressional appropriations process. Currently, the CFPB is funded directly by the Federal Reserve. According to the Appropriations Committee, the change will allow for increased accountability and transparency of the Bureau's activities as well as the use of taxpayer money.

It will provide a reasonable hold-harmless period for enforcement of the of the CFPB’s TRID regulation for those that make good-faith efforts to comply. A hold-harmless period will help ensure that consumers’ real estate closings are not affected by the new regulation.

Cordray ruled that New Jersey-based mortgage lender PHH Corp. accepted kickbacks for illegally referring consumers to mortgage insurers. In addition to Cordray's ruling, a final order was issued that requires the lender to obey the law and to pay $109 million to the CFPB.

Cordray responded to the lawmakers' letter on June 3, stating the Bureau's desire for a smooth transition and that since the rule was published in November 2013, the CFPB has made it a point to "engage directly and intensively with financial institutions and vendors through a formal regulatory implementation project."

Counsel's Corner is an ongoing series in which DS News talks with default servicing attorneys around the country about the most pressing issues facing the default servicing industry. This installment features Luke Sosnicki from Dykema's Los Angeles office, discussing RESPA’s new loss mitigation rules implemented by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in January 2014 and resulting litigation around those rules.