OCC Deputy Comptroller Testifies before Senate Subcommittees

On Nontraditional Mortgage Products

WASHINGTON – Deputy Comptroller Kathryn E. Dick discussed nontraditional mortgage products and the proposed interagency guidance on those products in testimony today before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy and the Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Her oral and written statements are available on the OCC’s web site at www.occ.treas.gov.

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