CHLA Lauds Passage of Transitional Licensing Bill Legislation Demonstrates Need for Separate Action on a Universal SAFE Act Test Contact: Scott Olson For Immediate… Read More »CHLA Lauds Passage of Transitional Licensing Bill
March 3, 2016House bill would ease licensing requirements for some nonbank loan officersA House committee has passed a mortgage industry-supported proposal that would create… Read More »House bill would ease licensing requirements for some nonbank loan officers
This Op-Ed appeared in American Banker on March 1, 2016. By Scott Olson A recent article in American Banker and National Mortgage News estimated that 20-25% of independent nonbank mortgage lenders “could… Read More »D.C. Must Take Steps to Halt Community Lender Consolidation (3/01/16)
Push for GSEs to rebuild capital to absorb any looming losses February 17, 2016 by Ben Lane From the above-referenced article in Housing Wire: “In… Read More »Community lenders call for Fannie, Freddie to stop paying dividend to Treasury – Housing Wire 2/17/16
“I can’t handicap how likely it is that they would do this, or how seriously they are looking at it right now,” said Scott… Read More »Scotsman Guide 1/26/16 – Mortgage industry divided over further cuts to FHA insurance premiums
On the topic of risk sharing Scott Olson wrote, “On behalf of CHLA I wanted to respond to your column about GSE up-front risk sharing, since… Read More »Rob Chrisman 1/26/16 – CHLA on Upfront Risk Sharing (Excerpt)