Transcription of Laws and Regulations HMDA
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Laws and Regulations HMDA Examination Procedures March 2019 HMDA 1 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)1 Background The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires certain financial institutions to collect, report, and disclose information about their mortgage lending activity. HMDA was originally enacted by the Congress in 1975 and is implemented by Regulation C (12 CFR Part 1003). HMDA was enacted given public concern over credit shortages in certain neighborhoods. In particular, Congress believed that some financial institutions had contributed to the decline of various geographic areas through their failure to provide adequate home financing to qualified applicants on reasonable terms and conditions. Thus, one statutory purpose of HMDA is to provide the public with information that will help show whether financial institutions are serving the housing credit needs of the communities and neighborhoods in which they are located.
Prior to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), HMDA required financial institutions to report data regarding applications, loan originations, and loan purchases, as well as certain requests under a …
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