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Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

2016

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Are We Ready For The Next Financial Crisis?, Matthew Diller, Eic F. Grossman, Richard K. Kim, Richard Squire, David M. Gallagher Jr. Jan 2016

Are We Ready For The Next Financial Crisis?, Matthew Diller, Eic F. Grossman, Richard K. Kim, Richard Squire, David M. Gallagher Jr.

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

The Symposium was held at Fordham University School of Law on October 30, 2015. It has been edited to remove minor cadences of speech that appear awkward in writing and to provide sources and references to other explanatory material with respect to certain statements made by the speakers.


Qualified Mortgages & Government Reverse Redlining: How The Cfpb's Qualified Mortgage Regulations Will Handicap The Availability Of Credit To Minority Borrowers, Patrick T. O'Keefe Jan 2016

Qualified Mortgages & Government Reverse Redlining: How The Cfpb's Qualified Mortgage Regulations Will Handicap The Availability Of Credit To Minority Borrowers, Patrick T. O'Keefe

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Imprudent underwriting and mortgage origination in the years leading up to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 and 2008 was determined to be one of its predominant causes. As a result, partly in an effort to protect consumers and ensure that lending institutions did not relapse into poor mortgage origination practices, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This Note examines the qualified mortgage rule promulgated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act. This rule is intended to ensure that borrowers receive loans that are not unfair, deceptive, or abusive, and to …