With the brouhaha over the CFPB’s interest in the industry use of marketing services agreements growing, it is the bureau itself that is the biggest threat under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, a leading industry attorney charged last week. “The threat, in a few short words, is the CFPB,” said Donald Lampe, a partner with the Morrison & Foerster law firm, during a webinar last week sponsored by Inside Mortgage Finance, an affiliated publication. “The CFPB, before our eyes, is rewriting the law, rules and previous guidance on RESPA Section 8(c)(2), which is the exception to RESPA for bona fide payments for services actually rendered – not just for MSAs, but so far, MSAs have received the most attention,” he ...
The biggest challenge that banks, credit unions and other lenders anticipate with the CFPB’s new final rule under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act is accurate data capture, according to a new survey from Wolters Kluwer Financial Services. “Overall, concerns about the new HMDA data-collection rules generated a 67 percent rating by respondents, reflecting a degree of impact ranking of a ‘7’ or higher on a 10-point scale,” WKFS said. “When asked to rank specific HMDA challenges, 64 percent of respondents cited the task of accurately capturing the new data fields as either their first or second biggest obstacle in complying with the new rules.” System upgrades, increased staffing and other costs also are driving industry anxiety, the survey found. Upgrading ...
Most of the participants in the housing finance industry think they are being hobbled by over-regulation, and the chief culprit is the CFPB, according to a new survey from The Collingwood Group, a consultancy in Washington, DC. Among the mortgage industry professionals surveyed, 72 percent named regulation as the top issue that is negatively affecting their origination volume. “CFPB regulation, in particular, was the most common cited source of negative influence,” Collingwood said. “Survey respondents complained that while the CFPB is generating new regulations that are designed to protect the consumer, the costs to comply with new rules result in higher rates and fees for borrowers,” according to the survey. “In many cases, well-intended regulations end up being more harmful ...
CFPB Retracts Cordray’s Claim About Most Jumbo Mortgages Being Non-QMs. Questions from Inside Nonconforming Markets, an affiliated newsletter, compelled the CFPB to concede that Director Richard Cordray misspoke during a speech at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s recent annual convention in San Diego. In asserting that the CFPB’s ability-to-repay rule hasn’t caused a significant reduction in mortgage originations, Cordray referenced jumbo loans, “most of which are non-QM loans,” he said. “While comprehensive data on the non-QM share of jumbo mortgages are not available, a number of data sources suggest that most jumbos are in fact QMs, not non-QMs,” Inside Nonconforming Markets went on to note. Three of the five largest jumbo lenders told the newsletter most of their jumbos are QMs, ...
First Republic Bank has contributed at least 21.3 percent of the loans that have been included in jumbo mortgage-backed securities issued in the first nine months of this year, according to a new ranking and analysis by Inside Nonconforming Markets. The bank was identified as having contributed $2.18 billion into jumbo MBS issued in the first three quarters of 2015, including $619.19 million in the third quarter. First Republic’s contributions to jumbo MBS issued in the third quarter alone topped the contributions of any other lender in the first nine months of the year. Jumbo MBS issuers and rating services generally disclose...[Includes two data tables]
Agency multifamily MBS issuance dropped more steeply, by 19.7 percent, but that was from the record $30.91 billion issued during the second quarter of this year.
New securitizations backed by commercial mortgages declined during the third quarter of 2015, but the market at the nine-month mark has nearly matched total issuance for all of last year, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. Some $49.62 billion of income-property mortgages were securitized during the third quarter of 2015, down 15.8 percent from the second quarter. However, with $162.18 billion of commercial mortgage securities issuance through the first nine months of 2015, the market is poised to reach its highest annual volume since the financial crisis when the year ends. Both sides of the market – non-agency CMBS and agency multifamily MBS – saw...[Includes one data table]