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Many regulatory changes go into effect in 2009 and 2010 as the government works to increase the knowledge of consumers who are shopping for credit.
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Anecdotal evidence of abusive practices in the home equity lending market led to the enactment of the Home Ownership Equity Protection Act (HOEPA). The act was amended in late 2001, and compliance under the new rules becomes mandatory on Oct. 1, 2002. The rate-based trigger was lowered by 2...
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To understand how these amendments affect a typical home equity loan, a loan example has been developed that incorporates the changes in the regulation. The annual percentage rate test and the points and fees test are applied to a loan example.
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<Para ID="Par1">We discuss in this essay three of the matters on which economists in the Bureau of Economics (BE) at the Federal Trade Commission have worked this past year. BE revisited familiar ground in the first matter, a proposed merger of office supply retailers. The second part of the essay considers...</para>
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that may aid consumers who contest an electronic transaction because of error, fraud, or merchant dispute. The first two …, debit cards, prepaid cards, and ACH e-checks. This third paper considers how protections related to fraud, error, and … encourage the adoption of fraud-reduction schemes, (ii) the current protections represent a significant cost to banks, merchants …
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