The CFPB is a tough cop on the beat, no doubt. But is the agency and its rules causing certain banks in Oklahoma to exit the residential lending sector?
Banks continue to press the CFPB on their request that the agency use its exemption authority to extend the ATR rule's compliance deadline from 12 to 24 months.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced enforcement actions on Wednesday against four private mortgage insurers left standing after the financial market collapse, putting the squeeze on the industrys use of captive reinsurance arrangements, which ceased when the financial markets collapsed, and fining the four companies relatively small, token amounts.
Nationstar Mortgage clarified that the non-agency MBS it plans to issue in the second quarter of 2013 is an asset-backed security with servicing advances from non-agency mortgages. Genworth U.S. Mortgage Insurance, a unit of Genworth Financial, Inc., announced on Friday that it will offer 24 training classes in April to help mortgage lenders and servicers improve their efficiency and build their business. Fannie Mae President and CEO Tim Mayopoulos said this week that it would be a mistake for official Washington to allow the prospect of the newly profitable GSEs to continue to slow walk efforts on housing finance reform.