The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a guide stating that the impact on small banks from a new escrow rule for higher-priced mortgages should be minimal. Processing Content The CFPB, ...
The CFPB has issued final “clarifying and technical” amendments to its final mortgage escrow account rule dealing with the establishment of mandatory escrow accounts on higher-priced mortgage loans ...
WASHINGTON — The burden on small banks from a new escrow rule for higher-priced mortgages should be relatively small, according to guidance released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on ...
Your mortgage payment should feel predictable. You lock in a rate, you sign the paperwork, you build your life around that number. Then one year, without warning, your monthly payment jumps by ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized rules for high-cost mortgages Thursday, implementing guidelines first outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act. Mortgages qualified as high-cost can no longer ...
The launch of the qualified mortgage rule last week overshadowed some of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s other regulatory revisions—one of them being the rule governing escrow accounts.
On May 15, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized two closely linked rules on mortgage escrow accounts that respond directly to the issues we discussed in our recent post, ...