Daylight Saving Time (DT) begins on March 11, 2018 at 2:00 a.m.. It ends on November 4, 2018. What does DT have to do with TRID? The TRID rules under Regulation Z require creditors to disclose the time zone applicable to its location when disclosing the date and time the interest rate lock and estimate of closing costs will expire on the loan estimate. As a result, financial institutions located in areas that observe DT […]
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HOUSE PASSES BILLS TO ELIMINATE THE “MADDEN ISSUE”
In 2016 the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’(NY, Connecticut, and Vermont) recent decision in Madden v. Midland Funding, LLC held that a nonbank entity taking assignment of debts originated by a national bank is not entitled to protection under the National Bank Act (“NBA”) from state-law usury claims. Apparently, the Court did not considered the “Valid-When-Made Doctrine”—a longstanding principle of usury law that if a loan is not usurious when made, then it does not […]
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 […]