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Q&A: California s finance regulator on squaring consumer protection and innovation
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REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS
On February 4, the SEC published a request for public comment regarding potential reform measures for money market funds, as highlighted in a recent report of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG). The PWG report discussed the results of the PWG’s study on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the short-term funding markets and, in particular, on money market funds, including the general stress experienced by prime and tax-exempt money market funds. The report concluded that the events of March 2020 show that more work is needed to reduce the risk that structural vulnerabilities in prime and tax-exempt money market funds will exacerbate or lead to stresses in short-term funding markets. The potential reform measures as outlined in the PWG report seek to: (i) address money market funds’ structural vulnerabilities that can contribute to stress in short-term funding markets; (ii) improve the resilience of money market funds and broader
In its
February 2021 Bulletin, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) reminds licensed mortgage loan servicers that DFPI examinations will include processes to determine compliance with state and federal laws providing consumer protections with regard to COVID-19-related foreclosures. The DFPI notes that these laws “include provisions allowing for forbearance of mortgage payments, post-forbearance options forbidding the requirement of lump sum payments, and the extension of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights to tenant occupied principal residences.” The DFPI also notes that California law protects both federally backed and non-federally backed mortgage loans.
The bulletin also warns that the DFPI will take the necessary actions to ensure that mortgage loan servicers comply with the homeowner protections in the California Homeowners Bill of Rights (which was enacted in 2013).