Consumer Protection and Mortgage Regulation under Dodd-Frank, 2017 ed.

When the Dodd-Frank Acts newly established Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took over responsibility for interpreting and enforcing the Enumerated Consumer Laws in July 2011, the industry was preparing for the massive regulatory changes to come. Since that time, the CFPB has made significant progress in fulfilling its mandate. In particular, Congress finally confirmed the CFPBs director, the CFPB began supervising non-depository lenders and other financial services providers, and the CFPB issued eight new complex regulations implementing Dodd-Franks requirements for the mortgage industry. Consumer Protection and Mortgage Regulation under Dodd-Frank provides the text and a detailed section-by-section commentary on: Title X (Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010), which creates the CFPB, an agency that operates as an independent agency within the Federal Reserve System Title XIV (Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act), which mandates new disclosures and imposes new restrictions and requirements on every facet of the mortgage process Title IX (Investor Protection and Securities Reform Act of 2010), which imposes new credit risk retention requirements for securitizers and originators and has the potential to significantly impact the availability of consumer credit to borrowers with less than perfect credit Each chapter sets forth the text and section-by-section commentary on the specific title the chapter discusses. This version is newly revised to include the recent regulatory developments, as well as an explanation of the many changes that the Act heralded for the mortgage industry and for consumer financial protection in general. What's