Settlement-Table Disclosure a Particularly Thorny Part of the CFPBs Integrated Disclosure Project
May 24, 2012
One of the trickiest challenges presented to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of its project to harmonize the mortgage disclosures consumers receive will be the settlement disclosure, a top official at the CFPB indicated recently. The settlement disclosure is where were in a bit of a difficult situation, because Congress, al-though they directed us to combine the Truth in Lending Act and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act disclosures, did not amend the underlying statutes, said Benjamin Olson, managing counsel in the office of regulations at the CFPB, during a webinar sponsored last...