State Regulators Levy $20 Million Penalty on Nation’s Largest Nonbank Mortgage Servicing Company

/EIN News/ -- Washington, D.C., Jan. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Washington, D.C.— Fifty-three state financial regulatory agencies have taken coordinated action against mortgage company Bayview Asset Management LLC and three of its affiliates, Lakeview Loan Servicing, Community Loan Servicing, and Pingora Holdings (collectively the Bayview Companies), for deficient cybersecurity practices and for not fully cooperating with state regulators following a data breach that impacted 5.8 million customers. 

The $20 million fine and corrective plan underscore the importance of meeting state requirements to protect consumer data and complying with state supervisory demands. 

State regulators in California, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington State led the multistate effort, which found that Bayview Companies’ information technology and cybersecurity practices did not meet federal or state requirements. Furthermore, the Bayview Companies delayed the supervisory process by failing to comply with state requests in a timely and complete manner in the early stages of the examination.

In addition to the monetary penalty, the Bayview Companies have agreed to take specified corrective actions, improve cybersecurity programs, undergo independent assessments, and provide three years of additional reporting to the states.

State financial regulators license and supervise more than 33,000 nonbank financial services companies through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS), including mortgage companies, money services businesses, consumer finance providers, and debt collectors. 

Consumers who have questions about the settlement should contact their state financial regulator. Consumers can also visit NMLS Consumer Access to verify that a company is licensed to do business in their state, and they may also view past enforcement actions. 

For more information, refer to the CSBS backgrounder on the enforcement action. 

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Media Contact: Susanna Barnett, 202-407-7156, sbarnett@csbs.org 

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The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) is the national organization of financial regulators from all 50 states, American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. State regulators supervise 79% of all U.S. banks and a variety of non-depository financial services. CSBS, on behalf of state regulators, also operates the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System to license and register non-depository financial service providers in the mortgage, money services businesses, consumer finance, and debt industries.

Susanna Barnett
                    Conference of State Bank Supervisors
                    2024077156
                    sbarnett@csbs.org