Modernization of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Data Collection and Disclosure. (a) The CFPB will think about, as appropriate and consistent with relevant law, proposing modifications to Guideline C to raise the property threshold for exemption from HMDA data collection and reporting requirements for smaller banks, to leave out questions from the scope of HMDA, and to make sure that disclosures secure personal privacy and minimize problems, consisting of insufficiently tailored, expensive, and complex software and training required for reporting monetary organizations.
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Capital and Liquidity Alignment. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) will consider, as appropriate and consistent with relevant law: (i) revising capital policies, constant with proper risk-management requirements, to tailor danger weights for all banks, consisting of community banks and other smaller banks, for portfolio home mortgages, maintenance rights, and warehouse lines of credit to the material credit danger of the exposure; (ii) updating security valuation and transfer systems between the Federal Reserve and Federal Home Mortgage Banks (FHLBs); (iii) expanding access to longerdated FHLB advances connected to domestic home mortgage possessions; (iv) producing targeted FHLB liquidity programs for entrylevel housing, owneroccupied purchase loans, and little property builders; (v) speeding up security boarding and valuation processes through standardized information and digital paperwork; and (vi) refocusing the FHLBs' Budget Friendly Real estate Program on faster-cycle execution and higher monetary leverage for small-scale and owner-occupied housing projects.
(c) Within 120 days of the date of this order, the Director of the FHFA, in consultation with the heads of other relevant executive departments and firms, shall submit a report to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and the Director of the Workplace of Management and Budget on the effectiveness of nationwide housing financing markets.
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Building And Construction and Real Estate Supply. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency, shall consider, as proper and consistent with appropriate law, modifying supervisory guidance both to exclude one-to four-family domestic development and building and construction lending from business real estate concentration assistance and to guarantee supervisory expectations support accountable construction loaning by neighborhood banks.
Appraisal Modernization. (a) The Vice Chairman for Guidance of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of Board of Directors of the FDIC, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Director of the FHFA shall consider, as proper and constant with suitable law and their statutory authorities: (i) updating appraisal regulations and guidance to broaden using alternative evaluation designs, desktop and hybrid appraisals, and expert system evaluation tools; (ii) simplifying appraiser certification requirements; and (iii) lowering appraisal requirements for low-risk transactions, including low loan-to-value refinancing and smallbalance loans; and setting clear appraisal timelines.
Digital Home Loan Modernization. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of HUD, the Secretary of VA, and the Director of the FHFA will consider, as proper and constant with suitable law: (i) eliminating unneeded wetsignature requirements for disclosures, applications, closing documents, and similar documents; (ii) standardizing approval of electronic signatures, e-notes, and remote online notarization; and (iii) promoting digital home loan standards.
Servicing and Supervisory Certainty. (a) The Secretary of HUD, the Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will consider, as proper and constant with relevant law: (i) lining up supervisory expectations to support portfolio mortgage servicing as a core neighborhood banking function; extending curefirst requirements to goodfaith maintenance errors; streamlining loss mitigation requirements; and providing a proposed rule providing exemptions from complicated mortgage services for smaller banks; and (ii) guaranteeing that supervisory examinations of carrying out, prudently underwritten portfolio loans do not concentrate on technical defects or count on progressing supervisory interpretations.
Enforcement. (a) The Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve, the Director of the CFPB, the Chairman of the NCUA Board, the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and the Comptroller of the Currency will consider, as proper and constant with suitable law, promoting a policy against enforcement actions for offenses of customer monetary laws that: (i) prevents imposing civil monetary penalties, except where the underlying violations are willful, understanding, or careless; (ii) considers good business conduct, including a bank's correction of good-faith, technical compliance errors; and (iii) enables organizations a sensible chance for self-identification and removal of appropriate compliance matters.