Industry, Consumer Groups Urge Broad QM Definition in Letter to CFPB

American Banker
April 17, 2012
Davidson, Kate

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and other housing advocates teamed with banking interests to address concerns over what stipulates a "qualified mortgage" under a new rule expected from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this year. The rule will require lenders to verify a borrower's repayment ability, unless he or she is taking out a QM. The trade and industry organizations joined forces to dispatch a letter to the CFPB on April 16, urging the regulator to broadly define the term. A narrow definition applicable only to a fraction of products and borrowers, they warned, would make lenders skittish about non-QM loans and, in turn, inflate the costs and risks of those products. A broad definition "is the only way to help the economy and at the same time ensure that the largest number of credit-worthy borrowers are able to access safe, quality loan products for all housing types, as Congress intended" under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, the letter declared.
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