MCLEAN, Va. (PRWEB) April 23, 2020 ComplianceTech, McLean, VA, today announces the refresh of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data in LendingPatterns™ to include the 2019 data as published by the CFPB on April 1, 2020. Using the 2019 HMDA data from every lender in the U.S., LendingPatterns™ can pinpoint fair lending issues related…
Two months ago, I wrote about data quality issues that I had seen in the 2018 public HMDA dataset. It turns out that HMDA data quality issues persist in 2019. LendingPatterns™ quickly revealed income reporting issues in the LAR. As an example, for one lender, the average reported income for a large batch of loans…
The 2019 uptick in refinancings has been well-documented in the media and by mortgage trade organizations. LendingPatterns™ can slice and dice the HMDA data to shed additional light on this increase. In brief, at a high level, I am seeing a 90.2% increase in the dollar volume of refinancing originations, compared to 2018 ($1.203 trilllion…