MBA Weighs in With Senate on Property Insurance Market

The Mortgage Bankers Association weighed in with the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs last week regarding challenges in the property insurance market and their impact on consumers.

CREF Policy Update: May 4, 2023

On Apr. 28, the House Financial Services Committee advanced H.R. 2798, the CFPB Transparency and Accountability Reform Act.

MBA CREF Policy Update Aug. 11 2022

The Senate was in session last week, as negotiations continued on a tax and spending deal (including the capital gains treatment of “carried interest”), and the Senate Banking Committee held separate hearings on climate change, and how communities and renters are faring in the housing market, respectively.

CREF Policy Update: July 14, 2022

MBA and ACLI submitted a proposal last week to the NAIC to harmonize the life risk-based capital treatment of non-performing mortgages with the 2021 changes to the treatment of real estate investments. Also last week, MBA issued a white paper examining how climate change is dramatically reshaping lenders’ and policymakers’ approaches to the U.S. residential and commercial real estate markets.

CREF Policy Update July 7, 2022

Commercial and multifamily developments and activities from MBA relevant to your business and our industry.

CREF Policy Update May 12 2022

On Thursday, the OCC, Federal Reserve and FDIC issued a joint notice of proposed rulemaking overhauling Community Reinvestment Act regulations. On May 4, the Federal Reserve – in a widely expected move – raised the benchmark federal funds rate and indicated plans for more 50-basis-point rate hikes in upcoming meetings.