On December 27, 2022, the CFPB adjusted the HMDA exemption threshold from $50 million to $54 million. The adjustment is based on the 8.6percent increase in the average of the CPI-W for the 12-month period ending in November 2022 (up from 1.3 in 2020 and 4.7 in 2021). Therefore, banks, savings associations, and credit unions with assets of $54 million or less as of Dec. 31, 2022, are exempt from collecting data in 2023.

On December 9, 2022, the CFPB issued a technical amendment that formally updates the Code of Federal Regulations to reflect the closed-end mortgage loan reporting threshold of 25 mortgage loans in each of the two preceding calendar years. This change comes after the CFPB announced through a blog post that the HMDA loan volume threshold for reporting data on closed-end mortgage loans has now decreased from 100 to 25 loans in each of the two preceding calendar years in accordance with a September 2022 court decision.

Over two months after the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order vacating the 2020 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Final Rule, the CFPB has finally broken their silence. On December 6, 2022, the CFPB announced through a blog post that the HMDA loan volume threshold for reporting data on closed-end mortgage loans has now decreased to 25 loans in each of the two preceding calendar years. Read more for a background on this change and how it might apply to you…

On June 16, 2022, the FFIEC announced the availability of data on 2021 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by 4,338 U.S. financial institutions. Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.

On June 13, 2022, the CFPB published the Beginner’s Guide to Accessing and Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data. The guide will serve as a resource to support a range of stakeholders in accessing and using HMDA data, the largest source of publicly available data on mortgage lending in the United States.

On 3/29/2022, the FDIC announced that the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) had issued the 2022 edition of A Guide to HMDA Reporting: Getting It Right! for Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)-related data collected in 2022 and reported in 2023. This longstanding compliance resource has regularly been used by financial institutions as a “go-to” HMDA resource as it can help financial institutions better understand HMDA requirements, including the data collection and reporting provisions.