Mortgage and Home Equity
Mortgage and home equity products have received increased regulatory and legislative scrutiny over the past few years. Historically, CBA has focused on home equity as a major retail product of our members. However, the Dodd-Frank Act’s elimination of federal preemption standards previously afforded to operational subsidiaries has forced many depository institutions to internalize their primary mortgage products, making them a more traditional retail issue. CBA is focused primarily on the efforts of the CFPB to regulate in this space, including TILA-RESPA reform, Qualified Mortgage (QM) rulemaking, and Dodd-Frank Title 14 rulemaking.
July 14, 2020 - 2:00PMPast
June 23, 2020What if you could cut the time it takes to complete a property valuation down to only 2-3 days? What if you could lower the cost of obtaining a valuation by an estimated 70% per transaction? Using a reliable Automated Valuation Model (AVM) workflow, you can. In this white paper, you’ll learn: The basics of how other lenders are using AVMs Advances in AVM technology The 4 pillars of compliance...
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January 21, 2020To Whom It May Concern: The Consumer Bankers Association (“CBA”), the Utah Bankers Association (“UBA”), and the National Association of Industrial Bankers (“NAIB” and collectively, the “Associations”)1 appreciate the opportunity to comment on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (“OCC”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPR”) to amend 12 C.F.R. §§ 7.4001 and 160.110 to clarify...
January 10, 2020On, Friday, January 10, 2020, the CFPB granted a no-action letter (NAL) to Bank of America regarding the bank’s funding arrangements with housing counseling agencies certified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The more than 1,600 HUD-certified HCAs serve more than one million households annually. They offer pre-purchase homeownership counseling to potential borrowers...
December 18, 2019Despite the growing interest in digital mortgage originations, mortgage loan cycle time actually grew longer in 2017, to an average of 36 days – an increase of almost a week from the previous year. This increase in loan cycle time means lenders need to look at streamlining other areas of the mortgage process in order to improve profitability and borrower satisfaction. Luckily, there are other...Pages
CBA Letter to Senate Banking for CFPB Semi Annual Hearing