Chopra says he is ‘open to’ reviewing the LO comp rule

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is aware that some loan officers are taking creative — and, as detailed in a recent HousingWire investigation, often illegal — approaches to winning business. And he would be willing to reexamine the decade-old rule that proh
Read MoreRentSpree announces new MLS partnerships

Rental software provider RentSpree announced on Monday a new partnership with UtahRealEstate.com (URE), a multiple listing service (MLS) serving approximately 20,000 real estate professionals across Utah. Additionally, RentSpree CEO Michael Lucarelli revealed in a LinkedIn post a new collaboration w
Read MorePennyMac announces proposed private offering of $650M in senior notes

California-based multichannel lender and servicer PennyMac Financial Services announced on Monday a proposed private offering of a $650 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes that the company says it will pay back with interest by 2030. The notes will “be fully and unconditionally guaran
Read MoreChopra: Credit reporting industry’s fee hikes “raise big questions”

The setting could not have been more appropriate. Rohit Chopra, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and frequent critic Bob Broeksmit, the president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, sparring on stage over what constituted a junk fee. Chopra, the consumer watchdog, noted
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