Regulatory News
CFPB takes action against Nationstar Mortgage for flawed mortgage loan reporting
Bureau's $1.75 Million Civil Penalty for Persistent and Substantial Reporting Errors is the CFPB's Largest Penalty to Date for HMDA Violations WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today ordered Nationstar Mortgage LLC to pay a $1.75 million civil penalty for violating the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by consistently failing to report accurate data about mortgage transactions for 2012 through 2014. Today's action is the largest HMDA civil penalty imposed by the Bureau to date, which stems from Nationstar's market size, the substantial magnitude of its errors, and its history of previous violations. In fact, Nationstar had been on notice since 2011 of HMDA compliance problems. In addition to paying the civil penalty, Nationstar must take the…
Agencies release annual CRA asset-size threshold adjustments for small and intermediate small institutions
The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced the annual adjustment to the asset-size thresholds used to define small bank, small savings association, intermediate small bank, and intermediate small savings association under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. The annual adjustments are required by the CRA rules. Financial institutions are evaluated under different CRA examination procedures based upon their asset-size classification. Those meeting the small and intermediate small institution asset-size thresholds are not subject to the reporting requirements applicable to large banks and savings associations unless they choose to be evaluated as a large institution. Annual adjustments to these asset-size thresholds are based on the change in the average of the…
CFPB Warns Financial Institutions About Potential Mortgage Lending Reporting Failures
CFPB Puts 44 Mortgage Lenders and Brokers on Notice That They May Be Required to Report Mortgage Data WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is issuing warning letters to 44 mortgage lenders and mortgage brokers. The Bureau has information that appears to show they may be required to collect, record, and report data about their housing-related lending activity, and that they may be in violation of those requirements. "Financial institutions that fail to report mortgage information as required make it harder to identify and address discriminatory lending," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. "No mortgage lender that is required to report their loan data can avoid this responsibility." The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which was originally enacted…
FDIC Releases Updated Summary of Deposits Annual Survey
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Friday released the survey of branch office deposits as of June 30, 2016, for all FDIC-insured institutions. The Summary of Deposits (SOD) annually provides deposit totals for each of the more than 91,000 domestic offices operated by more than 6,000 FDIC-insured commercial and savings banks, savings associations, and U.S. branches of foreign banks. Users can locate offices in a particular geographic area and create custom market share reports for a geographic area such as state, county, and metropolitan area. The FDIC has expanded the market share reports to allow users to see market growth and market presence for specific institutions. Data dating back to 1994 can be downloaded for analysis. To receive annual updates of the SOD, go to…
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Announces Availability of 2015 Data on Mortgage Lending
Archive note. What follows is the FFIEC’s own announcement of the 2015 HMDA data, reproduced here as it was issued in 2016. Every figure in it is the FFIEC’s, not RATA’s. One thing worth carrying forward if you are working with this vintage today: as the release states below, the 2015 data use the census tract delineations and the 2006–2010 American Community Survey data from the 2010 Census. Comparing that year against a recent filing year therefore crosses a census boundary change, which is the same caution the release raises and the reason tract-level comparisons across vintages need care. How tract assignment is done and why match rate is a different measure from accuracy is set out in how RATA measures geocoding accuracy. For the current filing cycle rather than 2015, see…
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