Thursday, March 13, 2025

Legal Briefs

January 2016 Legal Briefs

  • Privacy Notice Changes
  • Gotchas!
    • Settlement Fee May Be a Finance Charge
    • Limits on Releasing Funds of Decedent under Section 906 of the SBC
    • Effect of Divorce or Annulment on POD Accounts
    • Reg O Executive Officer Loan Limits
    • Pulling Credit Reports on Individuals
    • Releasing Customer Records with Authorization
    • Limits on Refinancing Certain Balloon Loans
    • Loans to Non-U.S. Citizens
    • When You Haven’t Got Everyone on the Same Page
    • The TRID Rule’s “Alternate Tables”
    • Reg DD Balance Disclosure Rule, ODP Access
    • Pre-deceasing POD Beneficiaries

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June 2015 Legal Briefs

  • Good news on UTMA accounts
  • Article 9 tweaks (finally!)
  • FCRA lawsuits
  • Expiry date passed on your flood notice
  • SCRA – What have we learned recently?
  • No changes in U3C late fees, dollar amounts
  • U3C Sec. 3-508A amended

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April 2015 Legal Briefs

  • The Bureau’s new RESPA booklet
  • More TRID rule announcements
  • A reminder on treasury ACH benefits changes
  • It’s more than mortgage lenders hours
  • Airing dirty laundry in public
  • I see dead people

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March 2015 Legal Briefs

  • Next compliance roundtable
  • Two phrases I hate to hear
  • Regulation Z changes
  • Lotteries are now OK — “It depends”
  • Help us help you
  • FAQs for direct deposits of IRS refunds

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November 2014 Legal Briefs

  • Privacy notice — final rule
  • QM cures
  • Servicing guidance
  • Reg O — alive and being violated
  • Flood insurance proposed rule
  • Counties — rural or underserved
  • Get it right the first time
  • RESPA Sec. 8 kickbacks
  • Redlining
  • When "free checking" isn’t
  • Wells Fargo’s maternity leave fiasco

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