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DETAILS ON 2018 HMDA DATA

Posted by jholzknecht on  September 13, 2019
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Category: FFIEC, HMDA, Regulation C
On August 31, 2019 the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) announced the availability of data on mortgage lending transactions at 5,683 U.S. financial institutions covered by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies. The released information includes loan-level HMDA data covering 2018 lending activity that were submitted on or before August 7, 2019. The data include a total of 48 data points providing information

PAYDAY LOAN RULES APPLY TO YOU – ARE YOU READY?

Posted by jholzknecht on  September 9, 2019
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The Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans (Payday Loan) Rule has been unfolding for years. Parts of the rule officially took effect on August 19, 2019; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has delayed the underwriting rules until November 19, 2020, and has further proposed eliminating those rules altogether. The August 19 date has been temporarily postponed by a court order. Some lenders need to build a comprehensive compliance management system (CMS) to

$170 MILLION COPPA SETTLEMENT WITH GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE

Posted by rcooper on  September 6, 2019
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Category: Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube, LLC have settled with the FTC and New York Attorney General over allegations that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).  The complaint alleges the personal information collected was from viewers of child-directed channels in the form of persistent identifiers used to track internet usage, commonly known as

2018 HMDA DATA AVAILABLE

Posted by jholzknecht on  September 3, 2019
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On August 30 the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) announced the availability of data on mortgage lending transactions at 5,683 U.S. financial institutions covered by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The data include a total of 48 data points providing information about the applicants, the property securing the loan or proposed to secure the loan in the case of non-originated applications, the transaction, and identifiers. Many of the data points are available for
On August 27, 2019 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a settlement with Maxitransfers Corporation (Maxi), a company that serves consumers looking to send money overseas. This is the CFPB’s first enforcement action based on violations of the Remittance Transfer Rule, which implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA). Maxi provides remittance transfer services from more than 1,600 third-party locations in the U.S., such as grocery stores and pharmacies, to over 19,500 payment locations
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