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CFPB’S FALL 2022 SEMI-ANNUAL AGENDA

Posted by jholzknecht on  January 10, 2023
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Category: CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Fall 2022 Semi-Annual Agenda includes10 items – one in the final rule stage, five in the proposed rule category, and four items in the prerule stage. Final Rule Stage – The final rule item is the Small Business Lending Data Collection under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The CFPB’s next action for the section 1071 rulemaking is the issuance of a final rule, which is expected in January 2023.

85 Days and Counting! Section 1071 Data Collection

Posted by Kimberly Boatwright, CAMS, CRCM on  January 5, 2023
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In July of 2022, the CFPB had agreed to a March 31, 2023, deadline for issuing a final rule implementing the small business data requirements of Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Section 1071 amended the ECOA, to require financial institutions to collect and report certain data in connection with credit applications made by small businesses, including women- or minority-owned small businesses. The CFPB issued a NPRM in September 2021 and the comment period ended on January

FINAL THRESHOLD UPDATE FOR 2022

Posted by Brent V on  December 30, 2022
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Category: CFPB, HMDA, Regulation Z
I bet you thought that you were all wrapped up on your compliance news for 2022, huh? Well…not so fast! On December 28, 2022, The CFPB released the final HMDA threshold and the remaining Regulation Z thresholds. The HMDA threshold was increased from $50 million in 2022 to $54 million in 2023. The HPML Small Creditor Threshold was increased from $2.336 billion to $2.537 billion in 2023. The HPML Intermediate Creditor Threshold was increased from

Are you one of the 1,700 new HMDA reporting institutions? Here’s where to start.

Posted by Kimberly Boatwright, CAMS, CRCM on  December 29, 2022
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Category: HMDA
On December 6, 2022, the CFPB issued a Notice rescinding its 2020 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Final Rule changing the loan volume reporting threshold for closed-end mortgage loans.  This was in response to a ruling by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in September of this year which stated that the CFPB did not have the authority to change the original reporting threshold from 25 to 100. In the notice the CFPB

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A THRESHOLD UPDATE

Posted by jholzknecht on  December 26, 2022
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We hope you enjoyed Christmas or the holiday you enjoy with your family. And, we hope the New Year holds great promise for you all. Annual Thresholds On December 22, 2022, we published a blog article entitled Final Regulation Z Thresholds. We had an error when loading the article to our website. The Qualified Mortgage thresholds for the spread between the annual percentage rate (APR) and the average prime offer rate (APOR) were misstated. The corrected
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