Boosting Facebook Posts: A Hidden Compliance Risk
If you work in mortgage marketing, the blue “Boost post” button on Facebook can feel like an easy win: a few clicks and your post reaches more...
Sliding Into DMs… and Straight Into Trouble
When social feeds are as crowded as today’s mortgage market, it is tempting for loan officers to fire off a quick Instagram reply or direct message a...
Mortgage Oversight Realignment: The Rise of State Enforcement
Structural and policy shifts since early 2025 have sharply curtailed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB’s) supervisory reach. A series...
Compliance & Coffee: Does Cost-Cutting Cost You More?
On Friday, September 30th, mortgage professionals from far and wide gathered in front of their various devices, caffeinated beverage in hand, for our...
That’s Not My Page! Social Media Made for You, But Not by You.
Carefully curating a corporate mortgage/financial services social media presence is practically a full-time job, given the intense regulatory focus...
CFPB Investigating Widespread Lending Violations in First Half of 2021
Financial regulators and lawmakers have worked tirelessly for decades to even the lending playing field for all possible customers, regardless of...
Online Mortgage Interest | CFPB/FHFA Originations Survey
The latest, highly-anticipated quarterly joint survey conducted by the CFPB and FHFA was recently published on July 30 and the results reflect...
CFPB: Regulation F Amendments to Move Forward without Delay
Although perhaps the most visible victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in the mortgage industry have been borrowers struggling to make their payments,...
CFPB drops hammer on GA debt relief company for telemarketing violations
The CFPB announced on July 8 that it had entered into a settlement with Georgia-based debt relief and ‘credit repair’ company Burlington Financial...