Q: Settlement agents provide a wide range of services, some of which have or seem to have quasi-legal overtones. Can you explain where the line is drawn between acceptable tasks… Read More »
Can we talk? That’s not the most original opening line you’re likely to hear, but it is one title agents should be using with their real estate clients and contacts… Read More »
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has mandated a massive overhaul of the mortgage disclosure requirements designed in large part to help home buyers shop more effectively for mortgages. An even… Read More »
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) new mortgage disclosure rules take effect August 1, but the American Land Title Association (ALTA) is hoping the agency will revise the new disclosure… Read More »
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has slapped two financial institutions with enforcement actions and one with a civil suit for implying in ads to consumers that they had an official… Read More »
Settlement services providers wondering how mortgage lenders will respond to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) Integrated Mortgage Disclosure requirements have gotten an answer from two of the largest ones. … Read More »
The RESPA winds are blowing again and they seem to be nearing gale force. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which has replaced the Department of Housing and Urban Development… Read More »
With the widely publicized hacks of computer systems at (among others) Target, Sony and the U.S. Central Command (the latter occurring while President Obama was giving a speech describing his… Read More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and state regulators ordered Wells Fargo (WFC.N) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) to collectively pay $35.7 million on Thursday to settle charges that they participated in an… Read More »
Adopt a compliance management system. If you are a frequent reader of our blog, you know that we have emphasized that message over and over and over again. Today, we… Read More »