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2 May 2024, 1:22 pm by Guest Author
Perhaps the most significant of those newly permitted activities is the dealing of derivatives and associated practices. [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 12:46 pm by Brett Natarelli
The Mortgage Bankers Association and other financial industry trade groups submitted amicus briefs arguing that, however SCOTUS resolves the Constitutional funding question, it should decline to invalidate CFPB historic rules, regulations and acts, because doing so would upset settled industry expectations. [read post]
28 Sep 2023, 9:22 am by Amy Howe
It created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect consumers in the marketplace and, in part, regulate predatory financial products, like the high-risk mortgages that had contributed to the crash. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 6:23 am by Richard J. Andreano, Jr.
The Mortgage Bankers Association and Housing Policy Council (the “Associations”) recently filed an Amici Curiae brief supporting the position of Townstone Financial regarding the scope of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) in the case CFPB v. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 11:03 am by Nicolas Castillo, Managing CPA
  The most accessible way to qualify for the visa is to buy a property in Spain (without a mortgage) worth at least €500,000. [read post]
30 May 2023, 10:15 am by Guest Author
Mortgage Bankers Association, the Supreme Court—interpreting the APA—remarked that “[a]n agency must consider and respond to significant comments received during the period for public comment. [read post]
25 May 2023, 2:05 pm by Tanner Horton-Jones
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an industry group composed of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has filed a brief as amici curiae cautioning the Supreme Court against a ruling that could call into question all of the CFPB’s regulations.... [read post]
15 Apr 2023, 11:00 pm
Likewise, mortgage financing with some lenders may be jeopardized by this kind of contemplated use. [read post]
1 Apr 2023, 5:00 am
That month, mortgage rates dwindled to 6.2%, and applications rose by 28%.But according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, that trend was “transitory,” as mortgage rates increased to 6.65%, (three percentage points higher over the year), and applications decreased to a meager 6% -- a 44% decrease from the year prior.Yet, in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s historic collapse, mortgage rates dipped, and hit a five-week low. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 11:15 am by Guest Author
At the outset, state-chartered savings and loan associations (S&Ls, or thrifts) filled a gap left by commercial banks, which did not finance home mortgages. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 9:05 pm by Andrew Kliewer
The American Bankers Association (ABA), for example, has called for raising the currently proposed threshold of including lenders that have made at least 25 credit transactions in the preceding two years to include only those who made at least 500 credit transactions in that time frame. [read post]
4 Nov 2022, 6:31 am
Smith is the Virginia Bankers Association Eminent Professor of Commerce at the University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce. [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 8:29 am by Loran Kilson
In remarks made at the Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Conference, FHFA Director, Sandra Thompson, noted: “The new models bring the benefits of innovation to the table in two ways: ​FICO 10T and VantageScore 4.0 both provide more accurate credit scores than Classic FICO. [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 12:14 pm by Alan S. Kaplinsky
The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) have filed a joint petition with the CFPB that urges the Bureau to engage in rulemaking to define larger participants in the market for personal loans. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 1:55 pm by James J. Scherer
The explosion in RON utilization and the benefits it can provide have won it resounding support among many major national interest groups, including ALTA, the National Association of Realtors, and the Mortgage Bankers Association. [read post]
15 Jun 2022, 11:32 am by Michael Lowe
  Banks – i.e., Financial Services Organizations (FSOs) — have been warned, as well, by the American Bar Association. [read post]
17 Apr 2022, 6:49 am by Tom Sharbaugh
The associate-to-partner tournament is a zero-sum game so associates must run as fast as possible in order to stay ahead of their fellow associates: if any one of them has a win, the chances of promotion for the others takes a hit. [read post]
6 Apr 2022, 11:33 am by Tom Smith
According to the weekly measure by the Mortgage Bankers Association today, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 4.90%, the highest since December 2018. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 8:00 pm
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (“MBA”), applications decreased by 13.1% during the week of February 14th (2022), representing its lowest level since December 2019.Refinancings fared even worse, with a recent 15% decrease, marking a 56% drop from this time, last year. [read post]