It should come as no surprise to mortgage originators and servicers that the CFPB has significantly ramped up its examination activity of their operations over the last year. Data provided exclusively to Inside the CFPB from the bureau per a Freedom of Information Act request reveal there was a 70 percent increase in mortgage-related exams in 2015 from the prior year. As the accompanying chart illustrates, nonbanks have been having an even more active degree of scrutiny from the bureau than have depository institutions. Nonbank originators have seen an 85.7 percent increase in exam activity year over year, versus depositories, which have seen a rise of “only” 42.9 percent during that period. And it is even worse for nonbank servicers. ...