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Compliance and Risk

In a comment letter to the CFPB yesterday, the American Bankers Association offered support for recent proposals that would make changes to the Qualified Mortgage rule and ultimately allow the temporary “GSE patch”—which grants QM status to loans eligible to be purchased or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—to expire once the changes take effect.  

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A group of Democratic senators today wrote to FHFA Director Mark Calabria raising concerns about a recent announcement that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will impose an “adverse market refinance fee” of 50 basis points for no-cash-out and cash-out refinance mortgages—a move strongly criticized by ABA and several other financial trade associations last week.  

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The Financial Stability Oversight Council announced today that it plans to undertake an activities-based review of the secondary mortgage market to assess both the risk that activities in the secondary mortgage market pose to the stability of the financial system and the efficacy of various risk mitigants.

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