Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a 431-page final rule to strengthen consumer protections for high-cost mortgages and to provide consumers with information about homeownership counseling. The rule is effective on January 10, 2014. The final rule amends: Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) by expanding the types of mortgage loans that are subject to the protections of the Home Ownership and Equity Protections Act of 1994 (HOEPA), revising and expanding the tests for
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will publish the long-anticipated amendments to Regulation Z to implement the ability to repay rules today. The rule will be effective next year. CFPB Director Richard Cordray will officially announce the new rule in an event scheduled for later today in Baltimore. The is the first of several final rules scheduled to be published by the end of next week. The rule imposes a range of obligations and restrictions
CFPB PUBLISHES SEMI-ANNUAL AGENDA
Category: CFPB, Regulation B, Regulation C, Regulation CC, Regulation Z, RESPA, Truth in Lending
Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published it’s semiannual agenda as part of the Fall 2013 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Agenda reflects antipathy actions during the period from October 1, 2012 to October 1, 2013. The next agenda will be published in spring 2013 and will update the agenda through October 1, 2013. According to the agenda the following final rules are expected in January 2013: Regulation X and
We mentioned yesterday in our Compliance Masters Group article that we’re expecting over 10,000 pages of regulations in the next few weeks. We are expecting a lot, but just not that much. We had a typo, and it should have said “we’re expecting over 1,000 pages of regulations”.
About a year and a half ago I started a Compliance Masters Group after hearing many of my seminar attendees say, “I wish I could take you back to the bank with me.” My goal was to develop a more hands on approach to help walk people through what’s going on in the crazy compliance world, and to develop tools to help them prepare and comply with all the laws and regulations. Our Compliance Masters
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