The mortgage banking industry is concerned that the Federal Reserve’s proposed rule on escrow accounts for higher-priced mortgage loans – especially the vast expansion of escrow account disclosure – is duplicative, unduly burdensome, and may be superseded shortly after it is implemented by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Some Congressional Republicans are making it increasingly clear that much of their concern with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has to do with the person currently overseeing its startup at the behest of President Obama, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren...

The Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced they had filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and its wholly owned subsidiary, MortgageIT, over some of its FHA lending practices...

Much of the mortgage industry remains abuzz with talk about the new proposed regulatory rules that would spell out what constitutes a “qualified mortgage” or “qualified residential mortgage.”...

The mortgage lending industry wants to use favorable legislation in Colorado as a model for other states to use in addressing neighborhood blight prevention via the accelerated transfer of abandoned property, one informed source confided to Inside Regulatory Strategies...

California. State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, is reportedly drafting his own version of anti- "dual track" legislation that would keep lenders and servicers from filing a foreclosure sale until a loan modification that has been requested by the borrower is denied...

The Treasury Market Practices Group wants to improve efficiency in the agency MBS market by imposing charges for failure to complete transactions. “The TMPG is proposing fails charges in the agency debt and agency MBS markets in order to reduce the incidence of delivery failures in the market,” said Tom Wipf, chair of...

The city of Los Angeles on Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries for failing to maintain the properties of loans that were pooled in non-agency MBS for which the company served as trustee. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich filed the over 200-page complaint, which accused the bank of...

A bill that would create a legislative framework for a covered bond market in the U.S. cleared a House subcommittee with bipartisan support this week following some fine tuning by its sponsors to address concerns raised by critics and regulators. The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and...

Securitization markets would gain more certainty regarding securities issuance going forward under legislation passed out of a House subcommittee this week that would restore to credit rating agencies their previous exemption from expert liability under the Securities Act of 1933. The exemption was removed with...