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The CFPB has announced annual adjustments to two asset-size exemption thresholds.  First, the CFPB has made no change to the asset-size exemption threshold under HMDA/Regulation C which is currently set at $44 million.  Banks, savings associations, and credit unions with assets at or below $44 million as of December 31, 2016 will continue to be exempt from collecting HMDA data in 2017.… Continue Reading

The CFPB has posted its 2017 final lists of Rural and Rural or Underserved Counties on its website.  The CFPB has previously posted lists of such counties for calendar years 2011-2016.

The lists are relevant to exemptions in several CFPB mortgage rules, including the CFPB’s rule requiring creditors to establish escrow accounts for certain first-lien higher-priced mortgage loans.… Continue Reading

As we have addressed, Congress passed the Helping Expand Lending Practices in Rural Communities Act of 2015 (HELP Act) on December 4, 2015, in efforts to expand the designation of additional areas as being “rural” under Regulation Z of TILA.   The HELP Act was passed after the CFPB issued a final rule to expand the definition of “rural areas” under Regulation Z with regard to the authority of small creditors to make certain qualified mortgage loans under the ability to repay rule and avoid the escrow account requirement for certain higher priced mortgage loans, as we previously discussed.… Continue Reading

As we previously addressed, the CFPB issued a final rule to expand the definition of “rural areas” under Regulation Z with regard to the authority of small creditors to make certain qualified mortgage loans under the ability to repay rule and avoid the escrow account requirement for certain higher priced mortgage loans.… Continue Reading

The CFPB has announced annual adjustments to two asset-size exemption thresholds.  First, the CFPB is making no change to the asset-size exemption threshold under HMDA/Regulation C which is currently set at $44 million.  Banks, savings associations, and credit unions with assets at or below $44 million as of December 31, 2015 will continue to be exempt from collecting HMDA data in 2016.… Continue Reading

Since it is unusual for CFPB annual adjustments to result in reduced thresholds, we want to remind blog readers of the reduced HOEPA and QM points and fee limits that will be effective January 1, 2016.

Effective January 1, the lower limits will be:

  • The total loan amount thresholds that determine whether a transaction is a high cost mortgage when the points and fees are either 5 percent or 8 percent of such amount will be, respectively, $20,350 and  $1,017.
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The CFPB has issued a final rule that revises the definitions of “small creditor” and “rural areas” under Regulation Z of the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). The final rule is effective January 1, 2016. We previously reported on the CFPB proposal to adopt these amendments.

The CFPB believes that small creditors play an important role in the mortgage industry because they generally try to maintain ongoing relationships with customers in a single community.… Continue Reading

On January 29, the CFPB proposed amendments to the portions of Regulation Z governing mortgages made by small creditors.  In the same notice, the CFPB also proposed amendments to Regulation Z’s definition of the term “rural,” which controls certain special permissions for small creditors operating predominately in areas that satisfy the definition. … Continue Reading

The CFPB has posted its 2015 final lists of Rural and Rural or Underserved Counties on its website.  The CFPB has previously posted lists of such counties for calendar years 2011-2014.

The lists are relevant to exemptions in several CFPB mortgage rules, including the CFPB’s rule requiring creditors to establish escrow accounts for certain first-lien higher-priced mortgage loans.  … Continue Reading

The CFPB has posted on its website a list of rural and underserved counties for calendar year 2011.  The CFPB had already posted lists of such counties for calendar years 2012 and 2013. 

As initially adopted, the CFPB’s final rule requiring creditors to establish escrow accounts for certain first-lien higher-priced mortgage loans contained an exemption for certain small creditors that operated predominantly in “rural” or “underserved” counties in the preceding calendar year.… Continue Reading