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Today the CFPB released a special edition of the Supervisory Highlights report covering examination findings in deposits, auto servicing, mortgage servicing, and student loan servicing, as well as payday and small-dollar lending.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is seeking in-market testing pilot program applicants as well as information from the public, consumers, lenders, and others with construction loan experience to assist in a proposal to adjust existing disclosures to better fit construction-to-permanent loan scenarios.

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The House passed H.R. 1059, the SECURE Notarization Act, establishing minimum standards for electronic notarizations and remote notarizations that occur nationwide and requiring any federal court to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any state while also requiring any state to recognize notarizations performed by a notarial officer of any other state when the notarization was performed under or relates to a public act, record, or judicial proceeding of the notarial officer’s state or when the notarization occurs in or affects interstate commerce.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered nine large auto lenders to provide information about their auto lending portfolios as part of an effort to ensure that the auto lending market is fair, transparent, and competitive.

The CFPB has issued an advisory opinion “to address the applicability of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) section 8 to operators of certain digital technology platforms that enable consumers to comparison shop for mortgages and other real estate settlement services, including platforms that generate potential leads for the platform participants through consumers’ interaction with the platform (Digital Mortgage Comparison-Shopping Platforms).”

The CFPB has published the Regulatory and Reporting Overview Reference Chart for HMDA Data Collected in 2023.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an Advisory Opinion clarifying how digital mortgage comparison-shopping platforms may violate the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) by steering consumers to lenders or service providers in violation of Section 8.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has proposed a rule that would impose limits on the amounts of late fees charged on credit card payments.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule to reflect inflation adjustments to its civil monetary penalties effective January 19, 2023.

The CFPB has announced that the filing period for HMDA data collected in 2022 opened on January 1, 2023, and all submissions will be considered timely if received on or before Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

The CFPB has announced the annual adjustments for inflation to the Bureau’s civil penalty amounts, as required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act, as amended and effective on January 15, 2023.

The CFPB has announced the asset-size exemption thresholds for certain creditors under the escrow requirements and small creditor portfolio and balloon-payment qualified mortgage requirements, and the small creditor exemption from the prohibition against balloon-payment high-cost mortgages under Regulation Z, effective January 1, 2023.