The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to mortgage lenders to stop using marketing services agreements, and it’s using the stick rather than the rules process to do so. Two major players in the mortgage space announced this morning that they are discontinuing marketing activities that depend on MSAs because of regulatory uncertainty, recent interpretations of RESPA, and a generally toxic enforcement environment, and that appears to be exactly what the CFPB wants. “Wells Fargo’s decision to exit all marketing services agreements is an important step for . . .
Source: CFPB to mortgage industry: Get out of MSAs | 2015-07-30 | HousingWire