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August 2, 2016

When you become the target of a regulatory agency, it can become very easy to…

June 21, 2016

Over the last several months the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has focused on financial abuse…

May 3, 2016

Whether certain loan officers are exempt from minimum wage and overtime compensation is an argument…

April 5, 2016

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finally released in February its long-awaited policy pertaining to no-action…

March 14, 2016

Compliance experts have long disagreed about how much, if any, discretion loan officers have in…

March 9, 2016

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently issued general policy objectives, which included goals related to…

February 29, 2016

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) released a statement last week containing its…

January 9, 2016

With consumers given the green light to sue lenders over the third-party vendors that they…

December 21, 2015

While marketing services agreements caused a stir during the second half of 2015, the mortgage…

November 25, 2015

Overly optimistic assumptions that can create false impressions for borrowers can easily rise to the…