Tighter standards for new mortgages coming soon 

New guidelines that would require banks to tighten underwriting standards and track portfolio risks on nontraditional mortgages while providing more comprehensive disclosures to borrowers will be finalized this fall, a federal regulator told members of the Senate Banking Committee Wednesday.

Kathryn E. Dick, deputy comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said that interest-only and payment-option adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) are complex products that are often marketed to people who don't understand their risks.

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