CFPB Issues Guidance on Early Implementation of Mortgage Servicing Rules

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released “policy guidance” on June 27, 2017 related to the effective dates of the 2016 mortgage servicing rule amendments. In response to repeated requests from the mortgage servicing industry to change the two effective dates, the CFPB explained that it does not “intend to take supervisory or enforcement action for violations of existing Regulation X or Regulation Z resulting from” early implementation of the amendments. However, this “relief” technically only applies to a three-day window prior to each of the effective dates of the 2016 amendments. While this guidance may be useful for some areas of the new law, in some ways the CFPB may have injected additional considerations into the implementation process that must be worked through in the coming months.

The complete article appeared in the September 2017 issue of Mortgage Compliance Magazine.