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#2195955 - 10/19/18 02:44 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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Following a field examiner's suggestion to file more data than is absolutely necessary can end up in having to resubmit the next time around and more. You don't get a free pass for giving them more information than required. They'll ding you for errors in those 'extra' fields. Why leave that door open?

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#2195961 - 10/19/18 03:54 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House rlcarey
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Originally Posted By rlcarey
I sat in on a regulatory panel on Tuesday and the examiners actually encouraged partially exempt banks to continue to report all data eek mad Nothing like the field examiners undercutting regulatory relief. No wonder banks are so confused about regulatory expectations.


I sure hope you publicly corrected them which I am guessing you did.
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#2196210 - 10/23/18 04:32 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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How about reporting for fields where there is no co-applicant? Would you do "No Co-Applicant" or "Exempt?" Both are true, so which is understood to override the other? My take is if you are going to report "Exempt" for the main applicant, then it would follow to also use "Exempt" for the co-Applicant. Or, does just using the "1111" eliminate the need for even completing the co-applicant field?

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#2196216 - 10/23/18 05:02 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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The FIG explains when Exempt is used vs 1111 vs leaving it blank, though there really aren't too many exempt fields specific to a co-borrower/co-applicant. For example, the credit score and credit score model should be listed as "1111" (exempt) for both the borrower and co-applicant/co-borrower, while the free-form text field should be left blank for both.

The current version of the FIG can be found here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/cfpb-hmda-public/prod/help/2018-hmda-fig-2018-hmda-rule.pdf
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#2196287 - 10/24/18 01:41 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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Thank you, Adam. I looked at the 2019 FIG, but it still wasn't totally clear to me, as it still says "Use Code 9999 in the co-applicant field if there are no co-applicants or co-borrowers on Page 88. But, I agree that 1111 should be used here.

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#2196546 - 10/26/18 02:09 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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If you are a small filer do you still need to report the Amortization Type, Lock Date and APR? It seems like that would be a part of the rate spread section, and therefore no, but I can't find where they are specifically addressed anywhere. It appears our HMDA software vendor is going to be looking for those fields to be completed once it is updated for the changes.

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#2196563 - 10/26/18 03:20 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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No, those fields aren't required if you qualify for the partial exemption.
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#2196567 - 10/26/18 03:49 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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Thank you!

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#2196586 - 10/26/18 05:15 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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There were 26 data points that are covered by the partial exemption and not required for qualifying small filers. Those 26 data points cover 53 separate data fields. While the BCFP's Interpretive rule identifies each of the 26 data points, they do not identify the corresponding data fields. To tie those together, you need to go to the Filing Instruction Guide which tells you for each data field what data point that field is tied to.

Interestingly, none of the three fields you mention are even fields or data points at all. There are four fields that related to the data point of Non-Amortizing Features - Balloon Payment, Interest-Only Payments, Negative Amortization, and Other Non-Amortizing Features. Lock date is not a reportable field at all. You need that date in some cases to calculate Rate Spread, but it never was, of itself, a reportable field. And now Rate Spread is an exempt data point as well. APR is also a field that was never a reportable field. There is a reportable data point for Interest Rate that is now exempt, but that was for the note rate, not the APR.
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#2196618 - 10/26/18 07:26 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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This entire subject just makes me cross-eyes. I don't even want to attempt to tackle it. I was hoping my provider would send something out on it...like a solution whereby I don't have to really do much of anything...but so far....crickets.

I know it would make life easier for the masses to quit collecting/checking so many things but CRIMINY...I just wish we could go back to the days of when a regulation was reduced to writing that was IT. No...oh well...let's tweak this and change that 50 times before it's ever a done deal and THEN they go turn it upside down way later in the game...it's just insane to me.
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#2196620 - 10/26/18 07:35 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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Right......regulatory relief after you've spent hundreds/thousands of hours training/checking software etc. doesn't feel like relief as much as it feels like "gotcha".
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#2196623 - 10/26/18 07:37 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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Exactly!!
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#2196664 - 10/29/18 02:09 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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I just did 2 presentations for the SC Bankers Association on TRID 2.0/2.1 and on HMDA (including HMDA 2.0). At the beginning of both presentations, I included the following quote from the book "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It pretty much summarizes where it feels like the BCFP is on things:

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“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
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#2196828 - 10/30/18 05:54 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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I've not read it, but my Father certainly did. I remember that!

I agree frown
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#2196971 - 10/31/18 07:30 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House raitchjay
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Originally Posted By raitchjay
Right......regulatory relief after you've spent hundreds/thousands of hours training/checking software etc. doesn't feel like relief as much as it feels like "gotcha".

Exactly. Might as well just report the expanded fields at that point, imho.

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#2197036 - 11/01/18 02:15 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House raitchjay
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Originally Posted By raitchjay
Right......regulatory relief after you've spent hundreds/thousands of hours training/checking software etc. doesn't feel like relief as much as it feels like "gotcha".


Agree 100%. It's almost easier just to keep going with all the extra stuff, at least through year-end.
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#2197038 - 11/01/18 02:25 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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At BOL Conferences' 2018 Lending Compliance Triage Conference last month, it was recommended that "partially exempt small reporters" continue to gather all of the data and to load their LARs up as if they are not partially exempt, so that they have in one place all the loan file data needed to do fair lending analysis themselves (or for an examiner or outside contractor to do such an analysis) and then use their vendor's option to report as a partially-exempt small reporter so that the 2018 LAR (to be submitted in 2019) will automatically be overwritten with the "1111" and "EXEMPT" responses needed before submission.

They would then have two LAR versions -- one with all the data that can be used for analysis (rather than having to dig all that info out under the gun for an analysis) and an official version reflecting their partial exemption status.
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#2197040 - 11/01/18 02:30 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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out of the frying pan...
But how is that 'relief' for anybody? In fact, it seems to be adding to the workload (maintaining two versions of the LAR).
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#2197042 - 11/01/18 02:38 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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I think that is hogwash too. Either the information that is contained in the expanded fields is already available, as in loaded into your LOS, which can be extracted or it is not. The fact that they added these fields to HMDA in 2018 changes nothing from a fair lending analysis perspective. What you had available for such an analysis pre-2018 will still be available in 2018. Why put more bullets in the gun??
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#2197043 - 11/01/18 02:43 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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If a bank has the data (even if they didn't report it) and the examiner asks for the data, then the bank is going to have to hand it over. This means that every bank that has compiled the data should probably be reviewing all of this data themselves for a fair lending review. I would never want to hand examiners organized and compiled data that I hadn't already reviewed to some degree.
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#2197044 - 11/01/18 02:49 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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and then use their vendor's option to report as a partially-exempt small reporter so that the 2018 LAR (to be submitted in 2019) will automatically be overwritten with the "1111" and "EXEMPT" responses needed before submission.


If such a convenient option ever becomes available [and is proven fool proof, which I'm skeptical about] prior to submission fine and dandy. If not I'll be DANGED if I'm going in and editing all these fields...who the HECK has time for that?
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#2197053 - 11/01/18 03:43 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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It is reportedly available from some vendors. I don't have names, but it's so elegant a solution I am surprised it hasn't been adopted by all of the vendors.

On the other hand, there's no guarantee this is the final stop on this roller-coaster. The Bureau is still looking at further revising Reg C.
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#2197061 - 11/01/18 04:10 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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I'm not blessed (or is it visited) by the small exemption but it would seem to me that if it's not on your LAR, how can an examiner ask for it? Are small exempt banks now suppossed to block out/not collect more information on the app? If all that's changing is what you report, then I'd tell an examiner 'what you see is what you get. I can give you the docs to support what I've reported. If I'm not required to report other data, I'm not scrubbing or proofing it.'
But again, this doesn't affect me directly but I do get questions from our client banks on what they keep in-house and have to report under the exemption.

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#2197078 - 11/01/18 05:48 PM Re: HMDA bill passes House Truffle Royale
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I think what is being said is this. As a small filer, I won't have to report credit bureau score, CLTV, or DTI. But if we have a fair lending exam, the first thing the examiners are going to ask me for is our HMDA LAR with those three fields appended to the LAR. If I've already got those data fields in a non-filed LAR that I maintain with all of the expanded data points, then it makes fulfilling that request easy. If I don't have that, I may have to do some digging to get that data for them when they ask for it.

That said, I'm not sure that makes it worthwhile for me to put our lenders, loan assistants and loan processors through the extra hurdles to pull out each of the 57 data fields for the 26 data points that we no longer have to report just to make a subsequent examiner request easy to fulfill. We can extract the data from our system should that request come. We might keep these three most commonly requested additions, but a lot of the other eliminated fields we absolutely will stop inputting into our HMDA data collection screen.
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