AARMR No Protection For Savanah Scares

Conference provides opportunity for regulators to interact, discuss common topics

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The highlight of the hot topic sessions were announcements from Maryland and Kansas that their departments would be introducing legislation to eliminate branch licensing. Regulators reinforced that companies still need to know where their originators are conducting business and will notify the regulator where their branches are located. However, the full details of the bills and how each state would handle the offset of the loss of branch licensing revenue was not fully discussed.

Examining Exams

Examinations were a featured theme beyond the hot topic sessions with several states discussing the use of the State Examination System (“SES”) during hot topics as well as specific session on lessons learned from the One Company, One Exam (“OCOE”) pilot that was ongoing. States shared that they were still testing the SES or just onboarding to the system. This fact was evident in the discussion of the challenges learned from the use of the SES and the OCOE process. Several states were onboarded to the SES just before the OCOE and that weekly training events were still being held for examiners during the examination.

Clearly the discussion showed that the regulators understood that the OCOE pilot was putting tremendous pressures on to the company being examined, though the company name was never mentioned. New examiners and recently onboarded states provided many challenges to the company and process. The lessons learned would be brought back and the process evaluated before the next OCOE was attempted.

Industry panel sessions and the attendee round table finished out the conference. Topics discussed were NMLS system delays, branch licensing flexibility, state CRA requirements and more. AARMR has announced plans for a full conference in August of 2022 in Indianapolis.

This article was originally published in the Mortgage Banker Magazine January 2022 issue.
About the author
Bob Niemi is a senior advisor at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.
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