The Mortgage Bankers Association was pleased the Senate version of the reconciliation bill keeps many of its priorities in place, while taking out the so-called revenge tax. However, the bill does differ from the House of Representatives version and the two need to conform before it can go to President Trump for signature. Furthermore, because […]
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Mortgage lenders welcomed the rescissions the Department of Housing and Urban Development made to 12 Federal Housing Administration policies, noting they would make the program more attractive for participants. They could even be a starting point for bringing banks back as originators in this government-insured program. These revisions might affect other segments of the housing
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Bloomberg News The Financial Technology Association filed a motion for summary judgment in federal court late Sunday, defending a final rule on consumer financial data rights that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Trump administration refused to uphold. The FTA said in a court filing that consumers cannot share their data without easy access
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Bloomberg News Most of the country’s largest banks are poised to see flat or lower capital requirements next year after performing well in this year’s Federal Reserve stress test, but ongoing efforts to reform its annual exam practices could complicate how much lower those requirements will ultimately be. Overall, banks registered their best performance since
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The potential for mortgage lending fraud accelerated over the past year, with risk related to undisclosed transaction details driving much of the surge, according to Cotality. In its latest report, the real estate data platform found fraud risk was up 7.3% year over year in the first quarter. Risk lessened over time, though, coming in
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank will consider a Basel III endgame proposal — in addition to the nascent leverage ratio proposal being unveiled later in the day — as part of bank regulators’ deregulation push during the Trump administration. Powell, speaking before
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In the nearly five years since they were first proposed, only 11 states have fully adopted the Conference of State Bank Supervisors’ prudential standards for nonbank mortgage servicers. Yet because of multistate examinations, these rules apply to 99% of nondepository mortgage servicers. The standards first went out for comment in October 2020, with 17 organizations
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in the House Financial Services Committee Tuesday morning.Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — House Republicans struck a mostly cordial tone with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a hearing at the House Financial Services Committee. Trump, ahead of the hearing, called on Republicans to press Powell after he held interest rates
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut short a five-year agreement with Bank of America Corp. over the bank’s alleged submission of false mortgage data as the significantly curtailed government agency rolls back a bevy of settlements, ending the monitoring of BofA more than three years early. The bank “fulfilled the obligations” of the agreement signed
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After several starts and stops, the trigger leads ban is the closest it’s ever been to becoming law, after the House of Representatives approved its version of the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act. There are some differences with the Senate version of the bill, which was approved by unanimous consent on June 12. Those can be
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