12 CFR 34.222 — Quality control standards for automated valuation models
Full verbatim text of 12 CFR 34.222 (interagency AVM quality control standards, OCC adoption at 12 CFR part 34, subpart G). Captures the chapeau requiring mortgage originators and secondary market issuers to adopt and maintain policies, practices, procedures, and control systems for AVMs used in credit decisions or covered securitization determinations, plus each of the five enumerated quality-control factors (a)-(e). Text captured section-by-section from the eCFR XML snapshot of 12 CFR part 34.
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12 CFR 34.222 — Quality control standards (chapeau)
Mortgage originators and secondary market issuers that engage in credit decisions or covered securitization determinations themselves, or through or in cooperation with a third-party or affiliate, must adopt and maintain policies, practices, procedures, and control systems to ensure that automated valuation models used in these transactions adhere to quality control standards designed to:
12 CFR 34.222(a) — confidence in estimates
(a) Ensure a high level of confidence in the estimates produced;
12 CFR 34.222(b) — protect against manipulation of data
(b) Protect against the manipulation of data;
12 CFR 34.222(c) — avoid conflicts of interest
(c) Seek to avoid conflicts of interest;
12 CFR 34.222(d) — random sample testing and reviews
(d) Require random sample testing and reviews; and
12 CFR 34.222(e) — comply with nondiscrimination laws
(e) Comply with applicable nondiscrimination laws.