Latest Round of CFPB Integrated Disclosures Involves Same Form to Compare Different Loans
September 15, 2011
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking a different tack in its latest round of prototype integrated consumer mortgage disclosure forms, this time utilizing the same form to facilitate comparison shopping of two different types of loans. Under its Know Before You Owe project, the CFPB is trying to integrate the current Truth in Lending Disclosure Statement and the Good Faith Estimate under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act into a single disclosure document. In the first three rounds of Know Before You Owe, we asked you to compare different draft versions of a simplified mortgage disclosure form, said Patricia McCoy, who heads...