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On November 23rd, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced the increase of the maximum conforming loan limits for mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2017.  This is the first baseline loan limit increase since 2006.  The 2017 loan limit for one-unit properties will be $424,100 up from $417,000.  How does this new loan limit impact your financial institution?  The first lien thresholds established for Higher Priced Mortgage Loans (HPML’s) are based

Implementing revised HMDA rules is a monumental task by any measure. The first phase is to determine scope and coverage, collect the data, and submit it to the CFPB. The second phase involves analyzing the data and determining the story told by that data. The scope of institutions covered by the revised rules has changed. The types of loans that are HMDA-reportable under the revised rules has changed. The list of information that must be

Following this week’s election we all need to evaluate the impact on our lives, families, and our businesses. Change is definitely coming, but will not happen overnight. If you have a positive view of the future I hope your vision comes true. If you are fearful of the future I hope your fears are unfounded. We need to closely watch the actions of Congress and the White House over the next few years to judge

Collection of 2017 HMDA data begins in less than two months. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced last summer in its 2017 Filing Instructions Guide (FIG) that beginning with the HMDA data collected in 2017, filers will submit their HMDA data to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) using a web interface referred to as the HMDA Platform. The HMDA Platform has not been released. That puts the industry in the awkward position of collecting 2017

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) have issued a new proposal to amend their regulations regarding loans in areas having special flood hazards to implement the private flood insurance provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Biggert-Waters Act). The proposed rule