FDICÂ FIL-58-2018
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA): Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Interpretive and Procedural Rule on Partial Exemptions from HMDA Requirements
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Summary:
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection released an interpretive and procedural rule to implement and clarify amendments to HMDA made by the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. The rule provides further guidance from the Bureau on implementation of the partial exemptions available to qualifying institutions pursuant to the Act.
Statement of Applicability to Institutions with Total Assets under $1 Billion: This Financial Institution Letter applies to all FDIC-supervised institutions subject to HMDA and Regulation C. A HMDA exemption applies to institutions with assets at or below a threshold specified in Regulation C.
Highlights:
- On August 31, 2018, the Bureau issued an interpretive and procedural rule to implement and clarify HMDA amendments made by the Economic Growth Act signed into law by the President on May 24, 2018.
- The Bureau’s rule became effective on September 7, 2018. However, as interpreted by the Bureau, the HMDA amendments became effective when the Economic Growth Act was signed into law.
- The Economic Growth Act’s HMDA amendments provide eligible insured depository institutions (IDIs) with a partial exemption from reporting certain data points with respect to closed-end mortgage loans, open-end lines of credit, or both. The partial exemptions are available to IDIs that meet conditions related to mortgage origination thresholds and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance ratings.
- The Bureau’s rule clarifies which data points are covered by the partial exemptions. The rule also clarifies that only loans and lines of credit that are otherwise reportable under Regulation C count towards the origination thresholds, as well as how to determine which CRA performance evaluations to consider in determining eligibility for a partial exemption.
- In addition, the rule clarifies that eligible IDIs generally may use a non-universal loan identifier for partially exempt transactions and may choose to report exempt data points as long as they report all data fields included in that data point.
Continuation of FIL-58-2018
Distribution:
- FDIC-supervised Institutions
Suggested Routing:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Compliance Officer
- Chief Lending Officer
Related Topics:
- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Regulation,
- 12 CFR Part 1003
Attachments:
- Final Rule: Partial Exemptions from the Requirements of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act under the Economic Growth Act , Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
- FFIEC Filing Instructions Guide for HMDA Data Collected in 2018 (August 2018 version)
Contact:
- Jamie Goodson, Senior Policy Analyst, at
- (202) 898-6685 or jagoodson@fdic.gov
- Jessica Thurman, Examination Specialist, at
- (202) 898-3579 or jthurman@fdic.gov
Note:
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