02.07.17

TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Amendments and Disclosing Revised Amounts

Per its normal procedures, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) requested comments on its proposed amendments to Regulation Z, commonly referred to as the “TRID Amendments.” In response, we provided a comment letter regarding these amendments, not only since they will impact our clients and ourselves once implemented, but also to share our expertise – cultivated through 25 years of providing vendor services – with the CFPB.

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01.10.17

The Countdown to UCD is On

One of the most significant data changes coming in 2017 will be the delivery of the Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD) to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which becomes mandatory on September 25, 2017. The UCD is a component of the GSEs’ Uniform Mortgage Data Program® (UMDP®) which defines data initiatives for loan closing, collateral, appraisal and loan delivery, in order to enhance data quality and standardization for the industry. UCD defines common industry data around the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) integrated disclosure laws; lenders will now be able to transmit the CFPB Closing Disclosure documents and data electronically. This way, regulators and the GSEs see “what the borrower sees.” The files also create an accurate loan file that is consistent for all lenders who sell loans to the GSEs.

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12.13.16

Docutech CEO Earns Vanguard Award from HousingWire

Ty Jenkins founded Docutech with a vision of how to simplify the mortgage loan document process and guarantee compliance. Twenty-five years later, Jenkins has led Docutech to become one of the nation’s premier mortgage document and software providers. He has become an expert and resource regarding compliance issues and document automation in the industry.

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12.06.16

What’s Next for eNotarization

Recently, our own Harry Gardner penned an article for the October issue of Mortgage Banking magazine entitled, “The E-Notarization Challenge: 50 States of Grey.” As Gardner pointed out there, getting all 50 states to fully support electronic notarization is a serious challenge facing the industry. We need to overcome it if we hope to have end-to-end electronic mortgages.

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11.17.16

2016 MBA Annual Convention Recap

It’s that time of the year again! No, not Thanksgiving or Christmas, I’m referring to the MBA Annual Convention. Just a few short weeks ago, the best and brightest minds in the mortgage industry headed to the industry’s most important event of the year with the goal of absorbing as much information as possible from the various keynote speakers, sessions and other attendees moving about the convention center.

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