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Compliance Hot Topics
March 13, 2013
Presented by:
Robin D. Hoag, CPA, CGMA, CMC
Lindsey Becker, BA
Kia Hekneby
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2. Overview Financial Institutions Group
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• Top Compliance Concerns
• New Regulations
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Top Compliance Concerns
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4. Regulation C: Home Mortgage Financial Institutions Group
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• Exam findings around HMDA LAR (Loan Application
Register) filing
• Greater regulatory focus on financial institutions
completing their HMDA LAR correctly
• CMP (Civil Money Penalties) are being assessed for
incorrect HMDA LAR filing/ LAR errors
• Focus on including all reportable loans on the HMDA LAR
and ensuring all fields are properly completed
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5. Regulation C: Home Mortgage Financial Institutions Group
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• Implement a quarterly scrub process of HMDA LAR
before filing annually to eliminate errors
• Most common errors reported are:
• Application Date: Have a consistent process in place to
determine the application date
• Action Type: Implement a process on what is considered a
denial, withdrawal, incomplete, approved not accepted, and
approval
• Purchaser Type: Record type of sale during the calendar
year. Be cautious of 4th quarter reporting; if loan was not
actually sold in the same year, it is considered not sold at
year end for HMDA purposes
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6. Compliance Management Financial Institutions Group
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• Four interdependent components of a compliance
program
• Board management and oversight: active involvement from
Board and Senior Management with the CMS
• Compliance program
• Policy: create strong compliance policy and procedures
• Training: creation of compliance training plan and schedule with
additional monitoring to ensure training is given with regulatory change
• Monitoring: implement monitoring to address exam/audit findings
• Consumer complaints: develop consumer complaint handing
procedures
• Compliance audit: develop aggressive audit plan to ensure
CMS
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7. Compliance Management Financial Institutions Group
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• Implementation, development, and maintenance of a
sound compliance management system that is
integrated into the institution’s overall risk
management strategy
• Allocate appropriate resources to the compliance
function
• Keep abreast of regulatory changes and properly train
staff to avoid regulatory violations
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8. Affiliate Due Diligence Financial Institutions Group
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• Monitor third-party relationships
• Credit reporting
• Appraisers
• Call centers
• Implement policy and procedures for third-party
relationships to include (annually):
• Due diligence
• Creating approved lists
• Annual auditing of third parties
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9. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Financial Institutions Group
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• Regulatory focus on BSA
High risk members
• Risk rate all members
• Develop enhanced due diligence (EDD) monitoring for all “high
risk” members
• Transaction volume, suspicious activity, purpose of account
• Create system parameters to monitor high risk members and
suspicious activity
Money Service Businesses (MSBs)
• Identify any MSBs
• Complete due diligence annually to include onsite visits, monitoring
business activity, verifying registration with FinCEN
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10. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Financial Institutions Group
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• Non-filed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
• Decision when and when not to file SAR
• Retain all documentation for unfiled SARs in a “non-filed”
SAR folder for examiner review
• Risk Assessment
• Provide accurate and comprehensive risk assessment for
BSA and OFAC compliance that fully takes into account
the nature of the credit union’s operations
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11. Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Financial Institutions Group
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Focus
• Monitor member’s overdraft activities to ensure daily limits
on fees are assessed
• Implement approval process for waiving overdraft fees and
maintain a tracking report
• Document and track all communications with members
regarding offered alternatives and all other member
correspondence
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12. Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Financial Institutions Group
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• Implement policy and procedures to include
overdraft presentment of debit items
• Include in member disclosures; items should clear in
order according to credit union’s policy and disclosure
• Full disclosure of all fees
• No underlying fees charged to member
• Direct advertising
• Not to include misleading information, rates, fees,
promotions
• UDAP covers full product line (deposit/lending)
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14. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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“The Consumer Bureau is well aware that credit
unions were not one of the causes of the recent
financial crisis. You were not underwriting the bad
loans that brought down the housing market.
Instead you were upholding sound underwriting
standards…”
Remarks by Richard Cordray, Director, CFPB, to CUNA (February 27, 2013)
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I know that [the qualified mortgage rule] probably
sounds quite foreign to credit unions,” he said.
“You typically pay close attention to whether your
members can repay the money you lend them.”
Remarks by Richard Cordray, Director, Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB), to CUNA (February 27, 2013)
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16. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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• Effective January 10, 2014
• Requires creditors to determine and document
ability to repay for mortgages against primary
residences
• Establishes eight criteria that must be used in
determining ability to repay
• Defines product features and underwriting criteria
for Qualified Mortgages (QM)
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Ability to Repay Criteria
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• Current or reasonably expected income or assets
• Current employment status
• Monthly payment on the mortgage transaction
• Monthly payment on any simultaneous loan
• Monthly payment for mortgage-related obligations
• Current debt obligations, alimony, and child support
• Monthly debt-to-income ratio or residual income
• Credit history
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18. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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• Product and underwriting features
• No balloon, interest-only, or negative amortization loans
• Loan terms do not exceed thirty years
• Points and fees do not exceed 3% of the loan amount
for loans greater than or equal to $100,000
• Calculation of the mortgage payment using the
maximum rate that will apply in the first five years of the
transaction
• Overall debt ratio does not exceed 43%
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19. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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• Establishes a presumption of compliance for QM
with Ability to Repay Rules
• Based on APR
• Safe harbor versus rebuttable presumption
• Provides for a temporary secondary set of QM
• Have the general product features of QM
• Are eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae, Freddie
Mac, HUD, Veterans Affairs, or Rural Housing
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20. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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• Allows for rural balloon QM under certain circumstances
• Designated rural or underserved area
• Community bank lender
• Less than $2 billion in assets
• Originates at least 50% of loans in rural or underserved areas
• Originates no more than 500 first mortgage per year
• Holds loan in portfolio for a minimum of three years
• Product features
• Amortization term of no more than 30 years
• Minimum five year term
• Meet QM underwriting criteria, not including 43% debt to income ratio
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21. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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• New proposals for small community
lenders
• Create new set of QM mortgages
having same criteria as existing set, but
not include the 43% debt to income ratio
• Allow higher threshold APR on first lien
QM which would still provide a safe
harbor instead of a rebuttable
presumption
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22. Ability to Repay & Qualified Financial Institutions Group
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• New proposal to exempt certain types of loans
from QM requirements
• Agency and government streamline loans
• Non-profit loans
• Homeownership stabilization program loans
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23. Loan Originator Compensation Financial Institutions Group
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• Amendments restricting mandatory arbitration and
financing single premium credit insurance effective
June 1, 2013
• All other provisions effective January 10, 2014
• Clarifies existing rules for loan officer compensation
• Defines “term of a transaction”
• Restricts use of a proxy for a term of a transaction
• Generally prohibits pricing concessions
• Prohibits compensation based on profitability of a
transaction or pool of transactions
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24. Loan Originator Compensation Financial Institutions Group
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• Allows for charges of upfront points or fees
• Imposes a duty on institutions to ensure loan
originators are qualified.
• Requires creditor and loan officer names and
identifiers on notes, security instruments and credit
application
• Prohibits mandatory arbitration in residential
mortgage transactions
• Prohibits financing of single premium credit
insurance including credit life products
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"Once again, for these servicing rules, we have
recognized that credit unions and other smaller
servicers typically operate according to a very
different business model based on strong customer
service. In their own way, each offers the kind of
high-touch service that their members have come to
expect, making extensive efforts to avoid
foreclosures."
Remarks by Richard Cordray, Director, CFPB, to CUNA (February 27, 2013)
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26. Mortgage Servicing Financial Institutions Group
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• Effective January 10, 2014
• Defines small servicers and exempts them from
many of the servicing requirements
• An institution which services 5,000 or fewer loans and
only services mortgage loans the institution or affiliate
originated or owned
• Requires periodic billing statements which must
meet timing, form, and content requirements
• Small servicers are exempt
• Fixed rate loans may be exempt
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27. Mortgage Servicing Rules Financial Institutions Group
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• Provides for new interest rate adjustment notices
for ARMs
• Prompt crediting of payment
• Requires accurate payoff letters be issued within
seven days of receipt of a written request
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28. Mortgage Servicing Financial Institutions Group
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• Changes requirements for charges of force-placed
insurance
• New initial and reminder notices required
• When borrower has an escrow account, servicers must
try to extend existing coverage
• Exemption for small servicers
• Insurance may be force-placed when there is an escrow
account if the price for the forced-place insurance is less
expensive
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29. Mortgage Servicing Financial Institutions Group
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• New error resolution and requests for information
requirements
• Generally includes any error relating to servicing
mortgage loans
• Includes Qualified Written Requests when related to
servicing
• Written acknowledgment of receiving the error within 5
business days
• Written response of resolution within 30 business days of
receipt (in most cases)
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30. Mortgage Servicing Financial Institutions Group
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• Requires developing and maintaining reasonable
polices and procedures for the servicing process
• Small servicers are exempt
• Early intervention for delinquent borrowers
• Contact required by 36th day of delinquency
• Written notice of loss mitigation options delivered by 45th
day of delinquency (model language provided in rule)
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• Continuity of contact
• Requires procedures to ensure competent personnel are available
to assist borrowers through the loss mitigation process
• Small Servicers are exempt
• Specifies loss mitigation procedures for primary residences
• Establishes timeframes
• Enforceable by individuals against creditors
• Small servicers exempt from all except
• Foreclosure filing cannot begin until 120th day of delinquency
• Foreclosure cannot be pursued if borrower is performing under the
terms of a loss mitigation agreement
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32. Appraisal Disclosure and Financial Institutions Group
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• Effective January 18, 2014
• Applies to applications for first lien loans on a
dwelling
• Requires creditors to notify applicants within three
days of receiving an application of their right to
receive a copy of the appraisal
• Requires creditors to provide copies of appraisals
or other written valuations upon completion or
within three days before consummation
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33. Appraisal Disclosure and Financial Institutions Group
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• Allows for a waiver of timing requirements as long
information is provided by consummation
• Prohibits creditors from charging for appraisal
delivery, but allows charging for appraisal cost
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34. Homeownership Counseling Financial Institutions Group
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• List of homeownership counseling organizations
must be provided within three days of application
on all mortgage loans except reverse mortgages
and time shares
• First-time buyers must have homeownership
counseling before closing a negative amortization
loan
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35. High Priced Mortgages (TIL) Financial Institutions Group
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• Two other new rules
• High-Cost Mortgage and Homeownership Counseling
Amendments to the Truth-in Lending Act
• Appraisals for Higher-Priced Mortgages
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"All of these exemptions express our recognition
and acknowledgement that the traditional credit
union lending model is deserving of respect and
should be treated differently under our rules. You
are member-focused, and you carefully protect the
people you serve. This is just the kind of service-
based model that we want to encourage in the
consumer financial marketplace."
Remarks by Richard Cordray, Director, CFPB, to CUNA (February 27, 2013)
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37. Financial Institutions Group
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38. Contact Us Financial Institutions Group
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Today’s Presenters
Robin D. Hoag, CPA, CGMA, CMC
Lindsey Becker, BA
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Compliance Supervisor
Direct: 248-244-3242
Direct: 248-244- 3791
Cell: 248.709.1270
Email: becker@doeren.com
Email: hoag@doeren.com
Kia Hekneby
Senior Compliance Specialist
Direct: 248-244-3184
Email: hekenby@doeren.com
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39. Services Financial Institutions Group
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• Audit • Commercial loan review
• Merger & consolidations • Loan loss & delinquency
• IT assurance control
• Controls review • Regulatory compliance
• Vulnerability assessments
• Penetration testing
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Notas del editor
Introduction: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau perodically issues Supervisory Highlights to communicate areas of concern, which generally mean that these areas will become subject to greater scrutinization. Even though most credit unions are not regulated by the CFPB, prudential regulators take cues from the CFPB and frequently CFPB concerns become concerns for all participants in the industry. In Supervisory Highlights: Fall 2012, the CFPB calls out the importance of an effective Compliance Management System (CMS) as well as the importance to managing affiliates.An effective CMS has four key ingredients. Failing to incorporate all the components can lead to systemic violations of federal regulatory policies. In addition to looking for all the required components, a typical exam evaluates both the application and understanding by managers and employees.
Important considerations to ensure an effective CMS include:
Depending on the circumstances, you could be held responsible for a service provider’s legal violations. Make sure that you understand an affiliate’s business practices and monitor the services provided to ensure that they are in compliance.
From prepared remarks at a meeting with the Credit Union National Association, February 27, 2013.As we review the new regulations, you will note several exemptions have been made for community lenders like yourselves, to help lessen the compliance burden these rules bring.
Ability to Repay Criteria: current or reasonably expected income or assets; current employment status; the monthly payment on the mortgage transaction - guidance to calculate monthly mortgage payments is provided for adjustable rate mortgages, interest only loans, negative amortization loans and balloon loans; the monthly payment on any simultaneous loan; the monthly payment for mortgage-related obligations; current debt obligations, alimony, and child support; the monthly debt-to-income ratio or residual income; and credit history.Product Features: • substantially equal periodic payments that do not allow for negative amortization, principal deferral or result in balloon payments; loan terms that does not exceed thirty years; points and fees that do not exceed 3 percent of the loan amount for loans greater than or equal to $100,000. (Thresholds for smaller loans apply); proper calculation of the mortgage payment, using the maximum rate that will apply in the first five years of the transaction; and overall debt ratio (back-end ratio) that does not exceed 43 percent
Ability to Repay Criteria: current or reasonably expected income or assets; current employment status; the monthly payment on the mortgage transaction - guidance to calculate monthly mortgage payments is provided for adjustable rate mortgages, interest only loans, negative amortization loans and balloon loans; the monthly payment on any simultaneous loan; the monthly payment for mortgage-related obligations; current debt obligations, alimony, and child support; the monthly debt-to-income ratio or residual income; and credit history.Product Features: • substantially equal periodic payments that do not allow for negative amortization, principal deferral or result in balloon payments; loan terms that does not exceed thirty years; points and fees that do not exceed 3 percent of the loan amount for loans greater than or equal to $100,000. (Thresholds for smaller loans apply); proper calculation of the mortgage payment, using the maximum rate that will apply in the first five years of the transaction; and overall debt ratio (back-end ratio) that does not exceed 43 percent
Points and fees - Thresholds for smaller loans apply; proper calculation of the mortgage payment, using the maximum rate that will apply in the first five years of the transaction;
Due to the tight credit market and the fact that the CFPB believes that there are many instances in which borrowers can afford a debt-to-income ratio greater than 43%, a secondary set of temporary QM loans was created.Presumption of Compliance:There are differing levels of compliance depending on the APR. First lien qualified mortgages with APRs less than or equal to the average prime rate plus 1.5 percentage points or second lien qualified mortgages with APRs less than or equal to the average prime rate plus 3.5 percentage points have a conclusive presumption of compliance or a “safe harbor”. Other qualified mortgages with APRs above the defined thresholds are presumed to comply with the ability to repay rules, but a consumer could rebut that presumption under certain circumstances.Temporary set of QM: This temporary provision will phase out over time as the various agencies develop their own QM rules or as long as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are under conservatorship, but not to exceed 7 years.
Rural Balloon Criteria: a property in a designated, rural or underserved area; originated by an institution which has less than $2 billion in assets; originates at least 50 percent of their mortgages in rural or underserved areas; originates no more than 500 first mortgages per year; and holds the respective loan in its portfolio for at least three years; fixed rate; amortization term no more than30 years; minimum five year term; andmeet certain standard underwriting criteria, not including the 43 percent debt to income ratio.Community Lendersdefined as: institutions with less than $2 billion in assets, originate no more than 500 first mortgage loans per year; and would hold the loans in their portfolio. In addition, all the standard qualified mortgage guidelines, except the 43 debt to income ratio would apply. Proposal also is seeking comment on allowing a higher threshold for the APR on first lien QM originated by smaller community lenders
When finalizing the ability to repay rules, the CFPB also simultaneously proposed new rulesCommunity lender has the same definition as used for rural balloon qualified mortgages:eligible institutions will have less than $2 billion in assets, originate no more than 500 first mortgage loans per year and would hold the loans in their portfolio.
Proposed Loan Exemptions: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, VA, FHA streamline loans; Non-profit loans; Homeownership stabilization programsComment period on new proposals ended on February 25. The assumption is that these new proposals would be finalized and effective at the same time as the rest of the QM Rules – January 10, 2014
The changes in the Truth in Lending Act relating to loan originator compensation were largely to clarify or codify existing rules. The Truth in Lending Act already prohibited basing loan originator compensation on “any of the transaction’s terms or conditions. The new rules defined Term of a Transactions : “Any right or obligation of the parties to a credit transaction.” Examples: interest rate, annual percentage rate, collateral type, prepayment penalties. To prevent evasion, the final rule also prohibits compensation based on a “proxy”.Definition of a proxy: A factor that itself is not a term of the transaction is a proxy for a term of a transaction if the factor consistently varies with a term or terms of the transaction over a significant number of transactions, and the loan originator has the ability to directly or indirectly add, drop or change. Example: A loan originator is paid a higher commission for loans held in portfolio than those sold on the secondary market. Loans with a fixed rate and five year term are held in portfolio. Loans with a fixed rate and 30 year term are sold. In this scenario, the factor, which is whether or not a loan is held in portfolio, varies with the interest rate and the loan term, which are the terms of the transaction, over a significant number of transactions. The loan originator has the ability to change the factor by advising the consumer to choose a five year term. In this example, whether or not a loans will be held in portfolio is a proxy for a term of the transaction.Pricing concessions – does allow compensation to be reduced for certain unexpected increases in settlement costsProfitability prohibition – rule does clarify that under certain conditions, profitability can be used as a basis in retirement and profit sharing plans
Upfront points and fees – the initial proposal would allow charging upfront points and fees as long as borrowers were also given information about an alternate loan that did not include upfront points and fees. The final regulations did not include this restriction. Qualified means licensed or registered as applicable under the SAFE Act (Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing). For institutions exempt from the SAFE Act, the rule requires them to ensure that their originators meet the character, fitness and criminal background standards similar to the SAFE Act and to provide appropriate training.Single premium credit insurance – products like credit life, disability etcCreditor and loan officer names and identifiers must be on the Credit Application; Note, Security Insturment;
Small Servicers - service 5,000 or fewer loans and only service mortgage loans that they or an affiliate originated or owned. If the loan is a fixed rate loan, a coupon book can be used as long as the applicable information from the regulation is contained in the payment book.Model billing statements are supplied in the regulation. Statements must contain, among other things, information on payments currently due and previously made, fees imposed, transaction actvity, application of past payments, contact information regarding delinquencies.
Model forms are given for interest rate adjustment notices. Notice is required at 210-240 days prior to the first adjustment change and thereafter required 60-120 days prior to rate adjustment. The current annual notice that must be provided for ARMs when the interest rate changed, but the payment did not, is no longer required.Payments must be credited on the day of receipt unless there will not be any harm to the consumer, including charges or negative information reported to the credit bureaus.
In general, servicers are prohibited from charging a borrower of force-placed insurance coverage unless the servicer has a reasonable basis to believe the borrower has failed to maintain coverage and the required notices have been provided to the consumer. Model forms for the notices are provided in the regulation.
Example of exceptions: Errors on payoffs must be corrected within 7 business days; Requests for information regarding the identity of and address or other relevant contact information for the owner or assignee of a mortgage loan must be provided in 7 days.
Continuity of contact: At minimum, personnel should be assigned to borrowers by the 45th day of delinquency. Personnel must be able to assist borrowers through the entire loss mitigation process, including providing accurate information to borrowers, status updates, and working with borrowers to collect all needed information. Personnel must continue to work with borrower until the borrower has made, without incurring a late charge, two consecutive mortgage payments in accordance with the terms of a permanent loss mitigation agreement or information for the foreclosure process.Loss Mitigation Procedures: Time frames: acknowledgment of loss mitigation application; time documents must be received for consideration; approval times; appeals timeframe
List is applicable to both open and closed end mortgages.CFPB or HUD will make the list available
Believing that our audience does not typically originate high cost mortgage, we did not discuss changes in these regulations.