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Compliance and Risk

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today issued an interpretive rule intended to help lenders comply with the requirement in its mortgage servicing and high-cost mortgage rules to provide a list — shortly after a borrower applies for a mortgage — of Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved housing counselors nearby.

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By a bipartisan 286-140 vote, the House today passed H.R. 685, a bill introduced by Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) that would provide needed clarifications on the Qualified Mortgage rule’s points and fees test as part of ABA’s Agenda for America’s Hometown Banks.

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Some 93.2 percent of mortgages were current and performing at the end of 2014, up slightly from 93 percent in the third quarter and up from 91.8 percent a year before, according to the Mortgage Metrics Report released on Friday by the OCC.

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