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Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. An Act to extend the authority for the flexible regulation of interest rates on deposits and share accounts in depository institutions, to extend the National Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers, and to provide for home mortgage disclosure. The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (or HMDA, pronounced HUM-duh) is a ...
e. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis covers the United States government policies and its impact on the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2009. The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was a set of events and conditions that led to the 2007–2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. It was characterized by a rise in subprime ...
The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (BSA), also known as the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act, is a U.S. law requiring financial institutions in the United States to assist U.S. government agencies in detecting and preventing money laundering. [2] Specifically, the act requires financial institutions to keep records of cash purchases of ...
Alan Greenspan Several steps were taken to deregulate banking institutions in the years leading up to the crisis. Further, major investment banks which collapsed during the crisis were not subject to the regulations applied to depository banks. In testimony before Congress both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Alan Greenspan claimed failure in allowing the self-regulation of ...
The size of regulatory compliance teams has grown. [ 99 ] In 2013, The Heritage Foundation called attention to the new ability of borrowers to sue lenders for misjudging their ability to repay a loan, predicting that smaller lenders would be forced to exit the mortgage market due to increased risk.
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1974 and codified as Title 12, Chapter 27 of the United States Code, 12 U.S.C. §§ 2601 – 2617. The main objective was to protect homeowners by assisting them in becoming better educated while shopping for real estate services, and eliminating ...
Mortgage Conduct of Business rules. The Mortgages and Home Finance: Conduct of Business Sourcebook (MCOB) governs the relationship between mortgage lenders and borrowers in the United Kingdom. They were issued in October 2003 by The Financial Services Authority. They apply to Regulated Mortgage Contracts which are entered into on or after 31 ...
The Mortgage Choice Act of 2013 ( H.R. 3211) is a bill that would direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to amend its regulations related to qualified mortgages to reflect new exclusions made by this bill. [1] The CFPB released new regulations regarding the definition of a Qualified Mortgage that took effect in January 2014, a ...