Compliance News: FHLMC Permanently Adopts Some POA Requirements Promulgated Due to COVID

Dec 3, 2020

Topics: In the News, Compliance News Alert

In FHLMC Bulletin 2020-45, amendments were made to FHLMC Single-Family Seller/Servicer Guide § 6301.4 to incorporate some of the temporary POA requirements promulgated by FHLMC earlier this year for the COVID-19 pandemic (see FHLMC Bulletin 2020-8 for details) for loans involving POA’s in general (such as memorializing the discussions with the borrower concerning the terms of the mortgage). These will apply to all mortgages with “Application Received Dates” on or after January 4, 2021.

We are currently reviewing this announcement to determine any impact, and evaluating any modifications, to our document library and/or systems. Any modifications we make as a result will be announced on our website.

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