What Are the Mortgage Servicing Rules Issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

The Dodd-Frank Act, TILA and RESPA authorize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to implement and issue additional consumer protection regulations. As a result, in 2013, the CFPB approved Regulation X and Regulation to implement both RESPA and TILA, including certain mortgage servicing specific rules.

Requirements imposed by the CFPC on mortgage servicing companies include:

• Successors in interest

• Error resolution and information requests

• Force-placed insurance

• General servicing policies, procedures and requirements

• Early intervention with delinquent borrowers

• Continuity of contact with delinquent borrowers

• Loss mitigation

• Interest rate adjustment notices for ARMs

• Prompt crediting of mortgage payments and responses to requests for payoff amounts

• Periodic statements for mortgage loans

• Small servicers

• Bankruptcy periodic statements

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Note that Regulation X usually uses the term "borrower", whereas Regulation Z use the term “consumer”. Most of the time you may use these terms interchangeably, since they tend to refer to the same individual but from a different perspective.