Skip to main content
Menu Icon
Close

InfoBytes Blog

Financial Services Law Insights and Observations
Section Content

Special Alert: CFPB Proposes Amendments to Know Before You Owe/TRID Rule

CFPB TRID

Lending

On Friday, the CFPB issued its much anticipated proposal to amend the KBYO/TRID rule. The CFPB crowded dozens of proposed changes into the almost 300 page proposal, most of which are highly technical and require careful examination. As the Bureau has signaled since its intention to issue amendments was first announced, the proposal is not intended “to revisit major policy decisions” because “[t]he Bureau is reluctant to entertain major changes that could involve substantial reprogramming of systems so soon after the October 2015 effective date or to otherwise distract from industry’s intense and very productive efforts to resolve outstanding implementation issues.” However, it has “proposed a handful of substantive changes where it has identified a potential discrete solution to a specific implementation challenge.”

If finalized, the amendments should resolve a number of significant ambiguities that have generated concerns about the liability of lenders and purchasers of mortgage loans and hampered loan sales, particularly the so-called “Black Hole” that can arise when closing is unexpectedly delayed. However, because it is unclear in most cases whether the Bureau intends the amendments to apply only prospectively and because the amendments would not alter the provisions for “curing” errors, these liability concerns will remain for loans originated prior to the effective date of the amendments. Furthermore, because the industry has been forced to make loans since October 2015 despite these ambiguities, it will be necessary in many cases to revise existing systems and practices to comply with the amended rule. Finally, in some cases, the Bureau seems to have gone beyond resolving ambiguities and is instead seeking to make targeted policy changes to the rule.

Although the proposed amendments are too voluminous and technical to be summarized comprehensively, we have highlighted a number of the more significant proposed changes below. Note that the CFPB specifically requested feedback on a number of the issues addressed in the proposal. Comments are due on or before October 18, 2016.

 

Click here to view the full Special Alert.

 

* * *

 

Questions regarding the matters discussed in this Alert may be directed to any of our lawyers listed below, or to any other BuckleySandler attorney with whom you have consulted in the past.