regulation-reform

Compliance Needs to Start with the CEO

01/05/12

In this regulatory environment CEOs need to set compliance priorities. But with so many regulations, and more to come, where to begin? Focus on five areas.

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Why Not 100% Risk Retention? Make Mortgage Originators Hold the Bag

01/05/12

Recourse to originator is proven to work, it's normal. When credit card receivables are securitized, the originator/servicer must stand behind them.

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Banks Should Beat the CFPB to the Punch

01/05/12

Despite new threats of legal challenges or hopes for structural changes, this agency cannot be wished away. But banks can still influence the size and nature of the role the CFPB will play.

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Tax on GSEs? Refi Push? It's All Election Year Nonsense

01/04/12

It seems everything the government does in a down economy produces "jobs" in an election year. But macro-magic aside, the Social Security tax holiday and the promotion of mortgage refinancing are bad policies.

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Banks Unprepared to Prevent 'Consumer Harm'

01/03/12

Banks' current compliance monitoring and reviews programs do not include the means to identify, measure and remediate potential consumer harm - an expectation coming out of the mortgage consent orders.

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Banks Unprepared to Prevent 'Consumer Harm'

01/03/12

Banks' current compliance monitoring and reviews programs do not include the means to identify, measure and remediate potential consumer harm - an expectation coming out of the mortgage consent orders.

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Who Really Needs the CFPB? Not Consumers

12/29/11

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can already pay boundless sums to political allies, the self-described consumerist organizations.

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Who Really Needs the CFPB? Not Consumers

12/29/11

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can already pay boundless sums to political allies, the self-described consumerist organizations.

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Bold Predictions, Part I - Durbin Rewrites Durbin

12/29/11

Fearless forecasts for bank regulation and reform in the new year.

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Bold Predictions, Part I - Durbin Rewrites Durbin

12/29/11

Fearless forecasts for bank regulation and reform in the new year.

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