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Qualified Mortgage Rules: Several news outlets (American Banker included) are out with a breakdown of what is in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new mortgage standards, ahead of its press conference on the subject later today. Key points of the rules include prohibitions from offering mortgages with deceptive teaser rates or ones that require no documentation from borrowers, restrictions from charging borrowers excessive upfront points and fees and a somewhat unexpected safe...