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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 […]

Yesterday, 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 comes on the heels of a ruling by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in September of this year.  The ruling stated the CFPB did not have the authority to change the original reporting threshold from 25 to 100. The April 2020, the CFPB’s […]

Recently, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) releases the FFIEC Census Flat Files and the Median Family Income Report. The FFIEC Census Flat Files are a convenient method of accessing and analyzing the FFIEC census data that are used to create the HMDA and CRA Aggregate and Disclosure Reports. They contain over 1,000 fields of census data and are updated annually to reflect changes to MSA/MD boundaries announced by the Office of Management and […]

Welcome from Orlando and the 2022 ABA Compliance Conference. It was a great first day of sessions.  All the sessions I attended today were informative and the speakers insightful. I wanted to take time to focus on the three key things I took away from the “Fair Banking/Fair Lending: Preparing for the 1071 Implementation” panel. The panel for this session included a great group: Kitty Ryan, Britt Faircloth, and Maureen Carollo.   Do not expect […]

On June 16, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) announced the availability of data on 2021 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by 4,338 U.S. financial institutions. Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies. The Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset (Snapshot) released today contains the national HMDA datasets as of May 1, 2022. Key observations from the Snapshot include the following: For 2021, the number of reporting institutions […]