ABA, the Consumer Bankers Association and the Housing Policy Council today welcomed the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s proposed standard for bringing “disparate impact” claims under the Fair Housing Act.
In a comment letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week, ABA urged the bureau to consider raising the coverage thresholds for collecting and reporting data about closed-end mortgage loans to 250.
Implementation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2015 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act rule resulted “astoundingly high” costs for creditors, the American Bankers Association said in a joint comment letter with the Bank Policy Institute, Consumer Bankers Association, Housing Policy Council and Mortgage Bankers Association today.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today issued a final rule providing relief for smaller institutions from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data collection and reporting requirements by extending until Jan. 1, 2022, the current temporary coverage threshold of 500 for open-end lines of credit.
The Federal Home Loan Banks awarded approximately $458 million in affordable housing program funds in 2018, a 15% increase from the year prior, according to a report released today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
Heated competition for bank funding is an increasingly important focus for community bank leaders, according to an annual survey released today by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
The share of current and performing first-lien mortgages in the second quarter of 2019 was 96.1%, up from 95.6% a year ago, according to the Mortgage Metrics Report released today by the OCC.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will retain a total of $45 billion in earnings under a new agreement reached with the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
With the future of the London Interbank Offered Rate uncertain beyond 2021, the Federal Housing Finance Agency today directed the Federal Home Loan Banks to begin planning to phase out Libor-based transactions.
The housing market appears to be picking up some momentum after slowing for much of the last year.