The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires most mortgage lenders located in metropolitan areas to collect data about their housing-related lending activity. Annually, lenders must report those data to the appropriate Federal agencies and make the data available to the public. Historically, HMDA has been implemented by the Federal Reserve’s Regulation C. In addition to various substantive amendments, the Dodd-Frank Act transferred rulemaking authority for HMDA to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB), effective July
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) makes it unlawful for creditors to discriminate in any aspect of a credit transaction on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, or age (provided the applicant has the capacity to contract), because all or part of an applicant’s income derives from public assistance, or because an applicant has in good faith exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Historically, ECOA has been
CFPB – THE INHERITED REGULATIONS – PART II
Category: CFPB, Dodd-Frank Act, ECOA, HMDA, Lending Compliance, RESPA, SAFE Act, Truth in Lending
On November 29th the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a notice and request for information about streamlining the inherited regulations. The “inherited regulations” include 14 existing consumer regulations that the CFPB inherited from other regulatory agencies on July 21, 2011, including, among others, Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) and Regulation X (RESPA). The inherited regulations are published in Chapter X of Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Following is the schedule of
CFPB – THE INHERITED REGULATIONS
Category: CFPB, HMDA, Lending Compliance, RESPA, SAFE Act
On November 29th the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a notice and request for information about streamlining the inherited regulations. The “inherited regulations” include 14 existing consumer regulations, including, among others, Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) and Regulation X (RESPA), that the CFPB inherited from other regulatory agencies on July 21, 2011. The inherited regulations are published in Chapter X of Title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations. On December 16, 2011 the
On November 29th the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a notice and request for information about streamlining the inherited regulations. This publication is significant for several reasons. INHERITED REGULATIONS The “inherited regulations” include 14 existing consumer regulations, including, among others, Regulation Z and Regulation X (RESPA), that the CFPB inherited from other regulatory agencies on July 21, 2011. The inherited regulations will be published in Chapter X of Title 12 of the Code of
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