All in HMDA

On February 3, 2023, the FDIC issued a Financial Institution Letter to inform supervised institutions of recent changes regarding the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) reporting threshold for closed-end mortgage loans and the FDIC’s supervisory approach for enforcing related requirements. According to the FDIC, it does not intend to initiate enforcement actions or cite HMDA violations for certain failures to report closed-end mortgage data collected in the last three years.

On February 2, 2023, the NCUA issued a letter addressed to federally insured credit unions regarding the change to HMDA’s closed-end loan reporting threshold. According to the NCUA, the agency recognizes that credit unions affected by this change may need time to implement or adjust policies, procedures, systems, and operations to achieve compliance with these reporting requirements. Thus, the NCUA intends to take a flexible supervisory and enforcement approach similar to the approach being taken by the CFPB.

On February 1, 2023, the OCC issued a bulletin to inform banks and OCC examining personnel that the loan origination threshold for reporting Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data on closed-end mortgage loans has changed. This is after a court decision was issued that the threshold for reporting is now 25 closed-end mortgage loans originated in each of the two preceding calendar years.

On January 31, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board issued a letter to institutions supervised by the Federal Reserve regarding the changes to home mortgage disclosure act (HMDA) loan volume reporting threshold for closed-end mortgage loans. The letter addresses the impact on financial institutions supervised by the Federal Reserve of recent changes as a result of litigation related to the HMDA reporting threshold for closed-end mortgage loans.

On December 27, 2022, the CFPB adjusted the HMDA exemption threshold from $50 million to $54 million. The adjustment is based on the 8.6percent increase in the average of the CPI-W for the 12-month period ending in November 2022 (up from 1.3 in 2020 and 4.7 in 2021). Therefore, banks, savings associations, and credit unions with assets of $54 million or less as of Dec. 31, 2022, are exempt from collecting data in 2023.

On December 9, 2022, the CFPB issued a technical amendment that formally updates the Code of Federal Regulations to reflect the closed-end mortgage loan reporting threshold of 25 mortgage loans in each of the two preceding calendar years. This change comes after the CFPB announced through a blog post that the HMDA loan volume threshold for reporting data on closed-end mortgage loans has now decreased from 100 to 25 loans in each of the two preceding calendar years in accordance with a September 2022 court decision.

Over two months after the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order vacating the 2020 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Final Rule, the CFPB has finally broken their silence. On December 6, 2022, the CFPB announced through a blog post that the HMDA loan volume threshold for reporting data on closed-end mortgage loans has now decreased to 25 loans in each of the two preceding calendar years. Read more for a background on this change and how it might apply to you…

VIDEO: Analyzing HMDA Data for Fair Lending

In this Compliance Clip (video), Adam discusses how the regulators are analyzing HMDA data for fair lending and explains why financial institutions should be analyzing their own data as well - even if they aren’t a HMDA reporter. This is a topic that was covered in our upcoming Fair Lending Hot Topics program.