Our compliance experts have been hard at work, cataloging the rule changes being published by regulators and investors across the country. In this roundup, we offer some compliance news and a number of document changes that occurred in May. For more details on any of these important changes, follow the links below or visit our compliance website.
Ask most lenders their number one headache, and the answer is usually keeping up with compliance changes. Compliance requirements take many forms – ensuring fair lending, accurate reporting on loan activity and maintaining documents that are clear and up-to-date with all federal, state and investor guidelines are just a few of the details that must be managed daily.
In mortgage lending, just following the requirements of regulatory agencies and the law is often not enough.
Faced with ambiguous language and constantly shifting revisions and interpretations of key regulations, many investors adopt a more conservative approach to compliance. This requires lenders looking to sell their loans on the secondary market to not only comply with the law but to also understand and follow the additional standards investors require when purchasing mortgages.
In a previous post, we pointed to the significant increase in consumer lending that we’ve seen over the past 12 months. While mortgage lenders typically don’t pay much attention to these lower balance, non-collateralized personal loans, they represent a promising growth area for financial institutions.
Three Ways a Strong Doc Platform Keeps Compliance Costs Under Control
Despite the Senate taking an axe to parts of Dodd-Frank last month in a proposal that would impact small and mid-sized banks along with changes to the SAFE Act, TRID disclosures and PACE loans, lenders still struggle with the rapidly rising costs of compliance.
For many years, one of the primary benefits touted by advocates of electronic mortgage lending was the concept of moving to a paperless loan process. However, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules that went into effect in 2015, eliminating paper – and its respective costs – is still a challenge for lenders making the move to digital.
On December 6, 2017 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published an updated version of the “TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Guide to the Loan Estimate and Closing Disclosure forms”. The new guide included updates and amendments, which the CFPB hoped would provide illustrations for how the final rule is issued in July 2017 should be implemented.
Denver, Colo. was invaded by leaders from the mortgage space, all eager to learn more about what’s to come in 2018 and get a firsthand look at the latest technology innovations aimed at simplifying and optimizing processes and improving the borrower experience. Along with a trade show floor full of new product and service offerings, MBA Annual 2017 offered attendees the opportunity to sit in on an array of sessions tackling key topics such as HMDA, digital mortgage and regulatory changes not to mention a motivating session on leadership led by five-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning.
Earlier this year, we wrote about the new Uniform Closing Dataset (UCD) delivery requirement coming from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which changes the way lenders provide loan information to the nation’s largest investors. The requirement is set to go into effect this Monday, September 25.
