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BREAKING The New York State AMC Law Is Now In Effect

Miller Samuel

Back on April 19th , I wrote about the New York AMC law in my Housing Notes newsletter. After years of AMCs chipping away at the public trust, the New York AMC law was designed to protect the consumer. Here is the NYS "AMC Law" as a PDF or in plain text on the landing page of the law. No, it isn't.

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Wells Fargo pays $96M to settle LO comp lawsuit

Housing Wire

The lawsuit, which combined two legal actions that were designated a class action, was filed on behalf of 5,377 loan officers and other mortgage staffers employed by the bank in California from 2013 and 2019. Wells Fargo agreed to pay $95.7 The deal will provide $62.8 A settlement with the U.S.

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California expands oversight of consumer protection watchdog

Housing Wire

With the official passage of the California Consumer Protection law on Friday, California’s Department of Business Oversight will be renamed the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and given expanded powers. California Gov. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill, originally introduced on Jan.

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Appeals court rules CFPB funding source unconstitutional

Housing Wire

The panel found that the “design of the CFPB violated the Constitution because it receives funding through the Federal Reserve, rather than appropriations legislation passed by Congress,” reads a story on the decision by Politico.

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CFPB sues TransUnion for duping consumers with “dark patterns”

Housing Wire

In a lawsuit, the CFPB claims that TransUnion and subsidiary TransUnion Interactive, as well as John Danaher, executive vice president for the division until February 2022, misled consumers and flouted a 2017 consent order with the CFPB for the same practices “the day it went into effect.”. Presented by: Black Knight.

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ESSA Bank to pay $3M to settle DOJ’s redlining allegations

Housing Wire

District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , ESSA “failed to provide mortgage lending services and did not serve the credit needs of majority-Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in the Philadelphia metropolitan area” from 2017 to 2021. Under a consent order still subject to court approval, ESSA has agreed to invest $2.92

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Fannie Mae and NAR at odds over flood-risk disclosures

Housing Wire

NFIP provides over five million policies, according to CRS, in jurisdictions that meet federal criteria on building, design standards, and risk index. billion, despite Congress having canceled $16 billion in debt in October 2017. Two of the most powerful U.S. As of December, NFIP’s borrowing authority had dwindled to $9.9

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