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Posted Date: Monday, April 8, 2024
Florida Agency Network Operations Manager Andrea Somers and Chief Administrative Officer/President Amy Gregory shared with RESPRO 31 – One Stop’s audience how to build an affiliated title operation, one step at a time.
RESPA News took a front seat for a discussion on staffing, vendor relationships, centralization, and technology considerations that can make or break a joint venture.
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Posted Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024
The real estate industry is set for a lot of switch ups this year, with real estate agent commissions under scrutiny and regulators testing out title insurance alternatives.
RESPA News listened in at RESPRO 31 – One Stop in Houston while Arthur Sterbcow of the Sterbcow Law Group, Pam O’Connor, formerly of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, and Craig Cheatham of The Realty Alliance, shared their perspectives on what’s ahead.
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Posted Date: Monday, March 4, 2024
RESPA News will be in Houston for RESPRO’s ONE STOP March 7-8. We’re covering discussions ranging from the broker commission lawsuits that have been dominating headlines, to navigating current RESPA compliance challenges.
Posted Date: Monday, December 11, 2023
After reviewing what can be learned from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s RESPA-related consent orders this year, Mayer Brown Partner Holly Bunting provided some real-life RESPA examples to the audience at RESPRO’s fall seminar, showing how regulators are approaching enforcement.
Promotional activities, marketing services agreements, and co-advertising are all on the bureau’s radar, she said.
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Posted Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has long urged state regulators to assist in RESPA enforcement, and the states are stepping up.
Sterbcow Law Group Managing Attorney Marx Sterbcow and RESPRO President and Executive Director Ken Trepeta spoke at RESPRO’s fall seminar in Bachelor’s Gulch, Colo. about the uptick in RESPA enforcement actions instigated by state attorneys general.
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Posted Date: Monday, October 9, 2023
Franzén & Salzano President Loretta Salzano and Firstline Compliance, LLC Vice President Jerra Ryan offered insight into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s renewed interest in marketing service arrangements, plus recent guidance about digital marketing and lead generation.
At this year’s NS3 (National Settlement Services Summit), the pair highlighted the most relevant parts of the opinion and how industry participants can remain compliant while still fulfilling their marketing needs.
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Posted Date: Friday, September 8, 2023
RESPA News is at the Ritz Carlton in Bachelor Gulch, Colo., for RESPRO’s RISE Conference Sept. 11-12. We’re covering discussions ranging from how states are targeting affiliated business arrangements to a fair lending update to keep our audience apprised of the hot compliance issues.
Posted Date: Monday, July 24, 2023
The executive vice president of compliance at ACES Quality Management and the practice leader of Ballard Spahr’s Mortgage Banking Group spoke to attendees at RESPRO’s spring session about what trends they are seeing in fair servicing and lending enforcement.
The two experts highlighted current case law and consent orders that show current regulatory focus.
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Posted Date: Monday, July 17, 2023
RESPA News listened in while Francis “Trip” Riley, partner at Saul Ewing, LLP and co-chair of the firms’ Consumer Financial Services Group, and James Milano, partner at McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, gave attendees at RESPRO’s spring session a rundown on the case challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding structure and the potential ramifications of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
In Community Fin. Serv. of America, LLC, et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, plaintiffs challenged a portion of the bureau’s payday lending rule limiting a lender’s ability to obtain loan repayments via preauthorized account access. The plaintiffs made several arguments challenging the way the rule was promulgated, the substance of the rule, and whether the bureau had the authority to enact it. As something of a “throw-away” argument the plaintiffs’ also challenged the rule by arguing that the bureau’s funding violated the appropriations clause of the U.S. Constitution and, therefore, none of its rules are enforceable.
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Posted Date: Monday, July 17, 2023
SoftPro’s Director of Regulatory Compliance Leslie Wyatt presented a workshop on how to successfully establish a mentoring program at this year’s National Settlement Services Summit, the premier conference in the title industry produced by October Research, LLC.
In a follow-up interview, she shared specifics on what mentoring can do for both individuals and companies.
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