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DISCOUNT POINTS

On November 28, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) issued a consent order against Peoples Bank (Peoples), Lawrence, Kansas, for deceptive residential mortgage origination practices in violation of section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Apparently Peoples told certain borrowers that they were paying an additional amount for discount points that would lower the borrowers’ interest rate. In fact, many borrowers did not receive a reduced rate. The consent order requires Peoples to pay approximately […]

SET YOUR CLOCKS BACK AND CHECK YOUR TRID DISCLOSURES

It’s that time of year again. Daylight Saving Time, or Daylight Time (DT), ends on November 5, 2017 at 2:00 a.m. If your financial institution is in an area that observes Daylight Savings Time, ensure the time zone designation has been updated to reflect Standard Time (ST) on your TRID disclosures. Under the TRID rules in Regulation Z creditors must disclose the date and time (including the applicable time zone): When the interest rate lock […]

TRID AMENDMENTS PUBLISHED

We reported on July 7, 2013 that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had released significant revisions to the TRI Rules. Now the revisions have been published in the Federal Register. Amendments are effective 60 days after the date of publication in the Federal Register with a mandatory compliance date of October 1, 2018. So with today’s publication the revisions are effective on October 10, 2017. This will allow financial institutions, in short order, to […]

ANOTHER TRID PROPOSAL

Right on the heels of the release of the 2017 TRID-RESPA Amendments final rule, the CFPB released a proposal today that also impacts TRID.  The proposed amendment released in July 2016 contained comments related to utilizing a Closing Disclosure to determine if a closing cost was disclosed in good faith.  The CFPB determined, based on comments received from the proposal, that many thought the amendment “would broaden creditors’ ability to compare charges paid by or […]