The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a 23-page proposed regulation to delay the Truth in Lending/RESPA Integrated Disclosures from August 1, 2015 to October 3, 2015. The delay is appreciated, but some of the explanations are just weird. The delay occurred because a CFPB staffer forgot to send a notice to Congress 60 days prior to the August 1st effective date. By the time the error was discovered a two-week delay, until August […]
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TRID DELAY
Today, within hours after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced to 1,700 bankers at the ABA Regulatory Compliance Conference that there would be no delays in TRID (TIL/RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule) implementation, CFPB Director Richard Cordray issued the following statement: “The CFPB will be issuing a proposed amendment to delay the effective date of the Know Before You Owe rule until October 1, 2015. We made this decision to correct an administrative error that […]
TRID DELAY – NOT LIKELY
It is that season again. Every time we approach the effective date of a major regulatory change various financial institution associations make last-ditch efforts to delay the changes or the impact of the changes. The outcome is always the same – nothing changes. The Truth-in-Lending/RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) changes are no exception. Recently the American Bankers Association (ABA) petitioned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to provide a grace period that would allow more time […]
PROPOSED CHANGES TO INTEGRATED DISCLOSURE RULES
On October 14, 2014 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a proposal to modify the final rule published last November. The proposal touches on two issues. Revised Loan Estimate After Rate Lock The proposal gives creditors some extra time to provide consumers with revised Loan Estimates after a consumer locks a floating interest rate. Under current integrated disclosure rules, when consumers lock their interest rates, creditors are required to give them a revised Loan […]
IMPLEMENTING THE NEW INTEGRATED DISCLOSURES – Part II
As explained in the first part of this article implementing the new integrated disclosures is a massive task. Lenders that have a plan and get an early start on the process will complete the task by the August 1, 2015 deadline with minimal stress to all involved. We advocate a three-step process for implementing the New disclosures. Master the Material – Mastering 1,888 pages of regulation and related material doesn’t happen quickly. Most of us […]