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2018 HMDA DATA AVAILABLE

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 […]

BOARD CONSIDERATION OF MUTUAL AID SOCIETY PLANS

The February 2019 revision to the flood insurance regulations provides a definition of a “mutual aid society” and describes the conditions under which a regulated lending institution may accept a flood protection plan issued by a mutual aid society. Within the Board’s Regulation H, 12 CFR 208.25(c)(3)(iv) enumerates those conditions. The first of the conditions for acceptability of a mutual aid plan requires that “the Board has determined that such plans qualify as flood insurance […]

UPDATED FLOOD INSURANCE EXAMINATION PROCEDURES

Recently the OCC, the FRB, the FDIC, the FCA, and the NCUA, through the Task Force on Consumer Compliance of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, revised the Interagency Examination Procedures for the Flood Disaster Protection Act. The revised procedures reflect the February 2019 final interagency rule that addresses the private flood insurance provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. The updated procedures incorporate new sections that discuss: Mandatory acceptance of a […]

UPDATED TRID GUIDANCE

On July 31, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau updated its TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure FAQs by adding five questions related to providing loan estimates to consumers: The questions include: When is a creditor required to provide a loan estimate to a consumer? Can creditors require consumers to provide additional information (other than the six pieces of information constituting an application) in order to receive a loan estimate? Can creditors require consumers to submit verifying documents before they […]