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.
ROAD to Housing Act becomes law
Among its homeownership benefits, the legislation also includes provisions related to brokered deposits, bank examinations, de novo bank formation and a mentor-protégé program pairing large financial institutions with smaller depository institutions.








