The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today updated its rulemaking agenda for 2017. According to the agenda, the bureau expects to issue a final rule on arbitration in consumer financial agreements around February and to finalize proposed tweaks to the TILA-RESPA integrated disclosures around March. The bureau is also continuing with its early-stage rulemaking activities on overdrafts, debt collection and lending to small businesses.
Agencies eliminate PSPA restrictions on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac conservatorships
FHFA and Treasury Department will delete provisions in the preferred stock purchase agreements governing the conservatorships of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that were previously suspended after multiple groups raised concerns about their effects on housing markets.