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.
Government holiday closures will not change compliance timelines
President Trump’s recent executive order closing federal government agencies on Dec. 24 and 26 does not affect the timing requirements in regulations with requirements based on business days, such as Regulation Z (TRID and right of rescission), Regulation...











