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On November 3, 2017, the CFPB released the much anticipated HMDA Platform.  The platform is the web portal that HMDA covered financial institutions must utilize to submit HMDA data beginning with its 2017 HMDA data.  The platform has been available for testing since November 3rd; however, the CFPB sent out a reminder today regarding the official closing date of the platform.  The beta testing period will officially close on December 31, 2017 to allow the

On November 28, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) issued a consent order against Peoples Bank (Peoples), Lawrence, Kansas, for deceptive residential mortgage origination practices in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Apparently Peoples told certain borrowers that they were paying an additional amount for discount points that would lower the borrowers’ interest rate. In fact, many borrowers did not receive a reduced rate. The consent order requires Peoples to pay approximately

On December 14, 2017 the Department of Defense (DoD) published some much needed clarification on the Military Lending Act (MLA). Previous DoD interpretations, in the form of 19 Questions and Answers published during August 2016,  provided less than sufficient answers to certain questions. The new guidance eliminates much of the confusion on those issues by amending its guidance on three of the questions and by providing one additional question and answer. Question 2 is amended

On November 20, 2017 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published its most recent Official Approval of the redesigned Uniform Residential Loan Application (URLA) to include an applicant language preference question. The first Official Approval of the URLA, which was issued by the CFPB on September 23, 2016: • Clarified that the relevant language in the redesigned URLA is in compliance with the regulatory provisions of Regulation B § 1002.5(b) through (d), regarding requests for

During mid-November the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the Agencies), published  a final rule to amend their respective Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. The rule amends the definitions of “home mortgage loan” and “consumer loan” and the public file content requirements to conform to revisions made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to its Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.