Industry Wants More Streamlined Approach to Successors in Interest
March 21, 2016
The Consumer Mortgage Coalition and the Mortgage Servicers Working Group wrote the CFPB recently to express their concerns with the bureau’s proposal on successors in interest and urged a more simplified approach instead. “While the CFPB stated that the successors in interest proposal was designed to make account information available to confirmed successors in interest, and to make loss mitigation procedures available to them, the proposal would not make these available,” the groups said. To begin with, privacy protections that the CFPB has not proposed to amend would continue to prohibit servicers from providing information absent borrower consent. “When the borrower does consent to disclosures, the disclosures are permitted under current law,” the CMC and the MSWG note. Also under ...