In the September 20, 2017, issue of the Federal Register (82 FR 43910, click here) the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation  (collectively, the Agencies) published proposed amendments to their respective regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in order to amend the existing definitions of “home mortgage loan” and “consumer loan” and the public file content requirements to conform to the recent amendments made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), and to make technical amendments to remove unnecessary cross references as a result of the amended definitions, and to remove obsolete references to the Neighborhood Stabilization Program.

In the September 13, 2017, issue of the Federal Register (82 FR 43088, click here) the CFPB published a final rule amending its 2015 HMDA (Regulation C) Final Rule to: (i) make technical corrections and clarify certain requirements; (ii) temporarily increase the threshold for collecting and reporting data about open-end lines of credit for a period of two years so that financial institutions originating fewer than 500 open-end lines of credit in either of the preceding two years would not be required to begin collecting such data until January 1, 2020; and (iii) adopt a new reporting exclusion.

In the August 30, 2017, issue of the Federal Register (82 FR 41158, click here), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau established the following 2018 thresholds for high-cost and qualified mortgages under §§1026.32 and 1026.43, respectively.