The Federal Housing Administration today published a final rule removing Libor as an approved index for adjustable-rate mortgages and replacing it with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as the approved index for newly originated forward ARMs, effective March 31. According to the agency, the rule also codifies the same changes made for newly originated reverse home equity conversion mortgage ARMs, makes clarifying regulatory changes to the requirements for monthly adjustable HECM ARMs, and establishes a 10 percentage points maximum lifetime adjustment cap for monthly adjustable HECM ARMs.
ABA, associations support TCPA reform, urge action by FCC to combat fraud
ABA led a group of eight financial trade associations in expressing support for proposals to the Federal Communications Commission that would adopt several requests to modernize the FCC’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act rules.










