On August 2, 2019 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) extended the comment period for specific aspects of the proposed Regulation C rule published in the Federal Register on May 13, 2019 (May 2019 Proposal) from June 12, 2019 to October 15, 2019. The May 2019 Proposal proposed amendments to Regulation C relating to the coverage thresholds for reporting data on closed-end mortgage loans and open-end lines of credit and partial exemptions under the Home Mortgage Disclosure […]
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Proposed HMDA Changes Published
The recent proposed changes to HMDA were published in the Federal Register on May 13, 2019. As a result the comment period ends on July 12, 2019. For details regarding the proposal see our recent blog article.
PROPOSED HMDA CHANGES
On May 2, 2019 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) and other items related to changes to Regulation C, which is the implementing regulation for the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Notice of Proposed Rulemaking For closed-end mortgage loans, the NPRM proposes two alternatives that would permanently increase the coverage threshold from 25 to either 50 or 100 closed-end mortgage loans. For […]
CFPB RELEASES MODIFIED LARS
On March 29, the CFPB announced that the HMDA Modified Loan Application Register (LAR) data have been published for approximately 5,400 financial institutions. This is the first year in which additional data reported by certain institutions under the 2015 HMDA rule are available. The Modified LARs contain loan level information for 2018 on individual HMDA filers, modified to protect privacy. A copy of the CFPB’s press release is available here. The 2018 HMDA Modified LARs are […]
HMDA FINAL RULE FOR EGRRCPA EXEMPTION
On August 31 the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection issued a final rule to implement and clarify the requirements of section 104(a) of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA), which amended certain provisions of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The rule clarifies: That insured depository institutions and insured credit unions covered by a partial exemption under the EGRRCPA have the option of reporting exempt data fields as long as they report […]