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Special Alert: CFPB Officially Delays TRID Rule Until October 3

CFPB TRID

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The CFPB finalized a rule today that delays the effective date of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (“TRID”) rule, including all amendments, from August 1 to October 3, 2015. This is consistent with the proposed rule issued last month, which we wrote about here.

The CFPB considered implementing a “dual compliance period” that would have permitted creditors to voluntarily comply with the TRID rule early, but it ultimately declined to do so, citing concerns that “dual compliance could be confusing to consumers and complicated for industry, including vendors, the secondary market, and institutions who act both as correspondent lenders and originators.”

In addition, although the CFPB declined to create a “hold harmless” or “safe harbor” period following the effective date, it stated that it “continues to believe that the approach expressed in Director Cordray’s letter to members of Congress on June 3, 2015,” which we wrote about, remains fitting:

[O]ur oversight of the implementation of the Rule will be sensitive to the progress made by those entities that have squarely focused on making good-faith efforts to come into compliance with the Rule on time. My statement . . . is consistent with the approach we took to implementation of the Title XIV mortgage rules in the early months after the effective dates in January 2014, which has worked out well.

The rule also implements two technical corrections to the requirements governing the “Calculating Cash to Close” and “Summaries of Transactions” tables in the Closing Disclosure. Specifically, the instructions for the “Adjustments and Other Credits” line are being amended to include the cost of any personal property excluded from the contract sales price. In addition, the instructions for calculating the “Closing Costs Paid at Closing” disclosure in the “Summaries of Transactions” table are being amended to account for general lender credits applied at closing.

For additional information and resources on the TRID rule, please visit our TRID Resource Center.

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