On April 5, 2024, the CFPB issued a report finding that more borrowers paid “discount points” upfront as overall interest rates rose. According to the CFPB, the percentage of homebuyers paying discount points roughly doubled from 2021 to 2023. 

On December 18, 2023, the CFPB adjusted the HMDA exemption threshold from $54 million to $56 million. The adjustment is based on the 4.1 percent increase in the average of the CPI-W for the 12-month period ending in November 2023 (up from 4.7 in 2021 and 8.6 in 2022). Therefore, banks, savings associations, and credit unions with assets of $56 million or less as of Dec. 31, 2023, are exempt from collecting data in 2024.

On November 28, 2023, the CFPB ordered Bank of America to pay a $12 million penalty for submitting false mortgage lending information to the federal government under a long-standing federal law. The CFPB found that hundreds of Bank of America loan officers failed to ask applicants certain demographic questions that are required under federal law, and then falsely reported that the applicants had declined to answer. 

On October 10, 2023, the CFPB filed a lawsuit in federal court, alleging that Freedom Mortgage Corporation submitted legally-required mortgage loan data that was riddled with errors, violating both the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) and a 2019 consent order. It can be recalled that in August 2023 the CFPB fined Freedom $1.75 million for paying illegal kickbacks for mortgage loan referrals.

On September 27, 2023, the CFPB released its annual report on residential mortgage lending activity and trends. The report provides an overview of residential mortgage lending in 2022 based on the data collected under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA).

On September 7, 2023, the CFPB released the HMDA Filing Instructions Guide (FIG) for data collected in 2024. As this guide is updated on an annual basis for the new year, there appears to be minimal changes in the newest version of the Guide.

On June 29, 2022, the FFIEC announced the availability of data on 2022 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by 4,460 U.S. financial institutions. Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.

On April 13, 2023, the OCC announced that the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) had issued the 2023 edition of A Guide to HMDA Reporting: Getting It Right! for Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)-related data collected in 2023 and reported in 2024. This longstanding compliance resource has regularly been used by financial institutions as a “go-to” HMDA resource as it can help financial institutions better understand HMDA requirements, including the data collection and reporting provisions.

On March 20, 2023, the CFPB announced that the HMDA Modified Loan Application Register (LAR) data for 2022 are now available on the FFIEC’s HMDA Platform for approximately 4,394 HMDA filers. The published data contain loan-level information filed by financial institutions and modified to protect consumer privacy.

On March 15, 2023, the CFPB published the 2023 HMDA Institutional Coverage Chart  and 2023 HMDA Transactional Coverage Chart. The updated charts are effective January 1, 2023. The updated coverage charts reflect the reduced 25 closed-end loans in each of the previous two calendar years threshold for reporting closed-end applications and loans.