Mortgage Groups Urge CFPB to Abandon All-Inclusive APR Calculation Disclosure Plan
October 18, 2012
The mortgage lending industry is universally opposed to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal to establish a new, more comprehensive all in annual percentage rate formula that would include various additional fees and charges. The APR provision is one part of the CFPBs extensive proposed rule intended to simplify and integrate the mortgage disclosures consumers are entitled to under the Truth in Lending Act and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. The overhaul was mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. In the proposed rule, which came out in July, the bureau would replace...