MBA Advocacy Update: June 8, 2020

MBA remains actively engaged with decision-makers at all levels of government to help shape the response to the effects of the pandemic on the mortgage market. Last week, the Senate passed legislation that would ease restrictions on the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, which President Trump signed into law on Friday.

Commercial Briefs

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., delayed the effective date for its new lease accounting standard by one year.

MBA Advocacy Update

Last week, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger gave her semi-annual report before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee. And the Financial Accounting Standards Board announced that it will delay the implementation date of the Current Expected Credit Loss standard for small public companies and private companies.