Tue, Apr 23 2013, 9:40 AM
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee announced yesterday that the committee would not be accepting testimony fr...
Mon, Apr 22 2013, 1:34 PM
Last week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued proposed clarifications to one of its 2013 Finals Rules , the one applying to servic...
Thu, Apr 18 2013, 3:03 PM
The Consumer Finance Protection Agency
( CFPB ) has released a report highlighting problems with what it called " senior
designation " credentials. ...
Tue, Apr 16 2013, 12:24 PM
The
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released a set of clarifying
and technical amendments to one of the several rules it released in...
Tue, Apr 16 2013, 11:25 AM
Given current rates , and thus the rates at which millions of people are refinancing, the home lending industry has become keenly interested in wh...
Fri, Apr 12 2013, 9:44 AM
Well, the rate lock renegotiation discussion continues, and here is one angle that I hadn't seen raised. "Lately we have been working/wrestling with...
Fri, Apr 5 2013, 9:55 AM
Yesterday I was in Denver, speaking at the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association, and, besides the increasing need for capital among lenders, the rumo...
Thu, Apr 4 2013, 1:40 PM
The four largest remaining private
mortgage insurance (PMI) companies have agreed to end what the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB ) call...
Thu, Mar 28 2013, 1:18 PM
Starting today consumers will be
able to track complaints about products and services levied by other consumers
against some 450 financial services ...
Tue, Mar 12 2013, 4:42 PM
Representative
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee sent
a letter to Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bern...
Tue, Feb 26 2013, 2:34 PM
Richard Cordray , Director of the Consumer
Financial Protection (CFPB) told the National Association of Attorneys General
that, since he last spoke ...
Wed, Feb 20 2013, 11:31 AM
I am in Kansas today. Before the congratulatory e-mails flood in, I mention this because I flew here. (In an airplane.) Per our very own Transportatio...
Mon, Feb 11 2013, 10:56 AM
This is the second of two installments ( part 1 )
summarizing a seminar given by Ballard Spahr, a national law firm, to explain
the possible ramific...
Mon, Feb 11 2013, 2:23 PM
A recent
spate of large loan servicing transfers has prompted the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau ( CFPB ) to issue a bulletin advising servi...
Fri, Feb 8 2013, 12:28 PM
Ballard Spahr , a national law firm conducted
a web seminar this week to explain the possible ramifications of a recent Appeals
Court ruling inv...
Thu, Feb 7 2013, 1:34 PM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) has teamed up with the City of Newark to provide an immediate and
accessible conduit for consumer co...
Tue, Feb 5 2013, 9:59 AM
Senate Republicans have fired the first
two shots in a renewed battle over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
( CFPB ). President Barack Obam...
Thu, Jan 24 2013, 2:26 PM
President Obama
has named Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and
reappointed Richard Cordray as Director of the Co...
Thu, Jan 10 2013, 7:51 AM
The final rule to implement those parts of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act relating to consumers ability to repay h...
Mon, Jan 7 2013, 10:25 AM
January is proving to be a newsy/volatile month for the industry. Last
week we had the delay in truly resolving the fiscal cliff, the Fed minutes
di...
Fri, Jan 4 2013, 10:28 AM
"Rob, I run compliance for a mid-size bank in Georgia, and our senior
management told us that we don't have to worry about what the CFPB is doing. Do...
Thu, Jan 3 2013, 5:08 PM
Shortly before recessing for the holidays the Chairmen of
the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and of its Subcommittee on TARP, Fin...
Fri, Dec 28 2012, 10:17 AM
"We're lost, but we're making good time." The CFPB does not seem to be
lost, and is certainly feeling its way along. From it we learned that between
...
Thu, Dec 27 2012, 9:57 AM
Okay, so here's something entirely un-mortgage related - productivity
this week stinks anyway. The kids are back from college, or on vacation from
s...
Wed, Dec 19 2012, 4:13 PM
On to something a little less fun. Uh oh. I can't weigh in on the
validity of this comment, but it comes from a reliable wholesale rep and if
true i...
Mon, Dec 17 2012, 9:28 AM
Say what you want about Trulia, it just issued the results of a survey that has
Realtors and LO's cheering: 93% of renters between the ages of 18 a...
Mon, Dec 17 2012, 9:22 AM
"Rob, my boss tells me that my company might start servicing loans .
But all I've heard about is the $25 billion lawsuit from a while back. Is
serv...
Wed, Dec 12 2012, 9:25 AM
Based on complaints from the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB ) a California court has shut down the
operations of two alleged loan modif...
Fri, Dec 7 2012, 9:04 AM
The
focus was on fair lending this week as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
( CFPB ) submitted a report to Congress on its maiden year wor...
Wed, Dec 5 2012, 12:41 PM
Here's a recent inquiry: "Rob, what is up with government going
after Gfee money ? Why does Congress have to vote to intrude into areas where it
...
Thu, Nov 29 2012, 10:19 AM
Better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. And a lot of
neighborhoods are trying new things in real estate - thanks to Tony B. for this.
...
Tue, Nov 27 2012, 9:39 AM
Let's see the local appraiser tackle this one .
Here's one case that the mortgage industry, is watching: UBS is striving to
block a lawsuit by...
Mon, Nov 26 2012, 10:26 AM
Even if you had to have the borrower come back to resign a document, or
you had to eat a one day extension, or locked a loan under the wrong program,...
Wed, Nov 21 2012, 11:43 AM
While you're dining on turkey and watching football tomorrow (maybe not
in that order) remember this touching story .
Folks continue to wonder ab...
Mon, Nov 19 2012, 10:41 AM
"Be good to your neighbor - they know where you live!" The Pilgrims did
not have many neighbors, but in the in the fall of 1621 they held a three-day...
Thu, Nov 1 2012, 1:42 PM
Two federal agencies announced
on Thursday that they are working together to create the first comprehensive
repository of detailed mortgage loan in...
Wed, Oct 31 2012, 10:58 AM
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(CFPB) reposted one of its earliest blog postings today to help the victims of
Hurricane Sandy avoid the ...
Fri, Oct 19 2012, 10:14 AM
Occasionally I am asked about a graphic presentation on foreclosures in
the United States, and how they've impacted different areas. Here you go .
...
Wed, Oct 17 2012, 10:03 AM
"Rob, in the old days, I'd go to conferences and secondary marketing
people would compare their status by comparing guarantee and guarantor fees.
Th...
Tue, Oct 16 2012, 9:12 AM
A late-breaking WSJ story tonight covered a potential compromise on a government proposal to legislate loan approval guidelines, and it requires some ...
Wed, Oct 10 2012, 3:57 PM
The
Mortgage Bankers Association ( MBA ) has submitted comments to the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB ) regarding the CFPBs August 10...
Mon, Oct 1 2012, 9:43 AM
This one from an AE in a "red state": Q: Do you know what the
difference is between conservatives and progressives? A: About $16
trillion! Trillion...
Mon, Sep 10 2012, 10:03 AM
One of Coke's slogans several years ago was, "Always
Coca-Cola." Unfortunately for SunTrust, who invested in the company almost
a hundred years ago,...
Fri, Aug 17 2012, 11:53 AM
Yes, the mortgage volume pie is shrinking , but rest assured that the
pieces are growing larger for the remaining originators.
Psssst! Want a coo...
Fri, Aug 17 2012, 7:02 PM
New regulations were introduced today by
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
( CFPB ) intended to bring greater accountability to the mortgag...
Thu, Aug 16 2012, 10:55 AM
Who doesn't like to have a little exercise when they travel? But this
might make some nervous .
This morning we had the weekly Initial Jobless ...
Wed, Aug 15 2012, 10:56 AM
Yesterday afternoon, per the Census Bureau, the U.S. population reached a
milestone that is very meaningful to mathematicians: 314,159,265 residents,...
Mon, Aug 13 2012, 5:28 PM
Both Fitch Ratings and the Mortgage
Bankers Association have reacted to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB)
proposed rules for mortga...
Fri, Aug 10 2012, 10:46 AM
"Wanna tell you a story, about the house-man blues.
I come home one Friday, had to tell the landlady I'd-a lost my job.
She said that don't confro...
Fri, Aug 10 2012, 10:19 AM
The
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is requesting comments on two sets
of proposed rules governing the operation of mortgage servicers ...
