Remember back in the 1950s when rock ‘n’ roll was going to corrupt the brains of America’s youth and lead to widespread communism? And now this music form is part of the American fabric. Could it be that all the fear mongering over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is overblown? The problem is that we won’t know for several years. Meanwhile, at a CBA meeting this week, Richard Davis, president of U.S. Bancorp, basically told bankers to get over the CFPB already. (USB is the nation’s sixth largest residential funder, according to NMN and Quarterly Data Report.) Davis’ message was clear: the CFPB is new and “we haven't had it before. But I don't think it's going to be harmful." For the full story visit the NMN website…
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An appellate court reversed part of an $8.5 million award for attorneys who secured a $38.5 settlement against the lender in 2023 in a False Claims Act case.
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Fintech Candid says its AI-powered newsletter platform can scrape social media and public data to help loan officers send hyper-personalized outreach at scale.
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Conforming loan limits are determined using a home price index. A congressman is proposing a switch to an income-based metric, creating more jumbo mortgages.
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Jay Plum, head of consumer lending at Fifth Third Bank, says artificial intelligence is fundamentally shifting relationships between banks and their third-party software vendors, allowing banks to do things on their own that they would previously rely on vendors to do for them, like identify risky loans and prepare for exams.
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The effective tax rate, measuring taxes relative to home prices, also increased to its highest mark in five years, according to Attom's analysis.
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The California-based lender announced Wednesday the addition of One Goal Mortgage, a branch serving the Omaha, Nebraska, metro area and Southwest Iowa.
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