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What the CFPB Has Been up To

Checking in on what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has been up to for the last month, in case you missed it (and with some commentary)...more

The FDIC’s Proposed “Synapse” Rule Affects Deposit Accounts Opened by Fintech Custodians

On September 17th, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") issued a proposed rule entitled “Recordkeeping for Custodial Accounts” with comments due sixty days from the date of publication in the Federal Register...more

What Happens When You Ignore the Supreme Court? Maybe the Ninth Circuit Will Find Out – an Update on National Bank Preemption

As we reported in June, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Cantero v. Bank of America on bank pre-emption matters that remanded cases decided by three different Circuit Courts, finding that  the courts did not apply...more

On the Money: Changes to the UCC’s Definition of Money – UCC 1–201(b)(24) – Part Three

The following article is part three of our series on the 2022 Amendments to the UCC. Please read the first two articles for context. I am going to get right to the point here – the reason that the definition of money has been...more

On Being Conspicuous: Changes to the UCC’s Definition of Conspicuous – UCC 1-201(b)(10) – Part Two

The following article is part two of our series on the 2022 Amendments to the UCC. Please read the first article for context. The discussion below is divided such that the first section discusses the edits made in the 2022...more

I’ve Read the UCC Amendments so You Don’t Have To – Part One

Welcome to this series of articles in Cabinet News & Views where we will be reviewing changes to the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC"). Before I lose folks, let me explain why . . . The UCC is our basic contracting law in...more

CFPB Addresses “Contracts for Deeds,” a Mortgage-Like Product That Has Recently Gained Popularity

On August 13th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a consumer advisory as well as an advisory opinion addressing “contracts for deeds”, which are also variously called a “bond for deed”, “land...more

CFPB Updates on Buy Now, Pay Later Lending

On August 16th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") Director, Rohit Chopra, published a blog post entitled “What Buy Now, Pay Later lenders are doing to be upfront with borrowers” that follows up on its proposed...more

CFPB Issues Report on Concerns Regarding the Solar Financing Market

In this report on the solar financing marketplace, which is characterized as an “Issue Spotlight”, the CFPB identifies four areas that they view to present risks to consumers. In the press release accompanying the report,...more

Banking Regulators’ Request for Information on Bank-Fintech Arrangements

On July 25, 2024, the Fed, the OCC and the FDIC (the “Banking Regulators”) released a “Request for Information on Bank-Fintech Arrangements Involving Banking Products and Services Distributed to Consumers and Businesses” (the...more

Final Interagency Guidance on Reconsiderations of Value of Residential Real Estate

While we reported in our last Cabinet News & Views on the final rule regarding quality control standards for AVMs which will take effect one year after publication in the Federal Register (i.e., it has not yet been...more

Chevron Isn't Slowing CFPB Down, As They Issue a New Proposed Rule on Mortgage Servicing

On July 24th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new proposed rule “Streamlining Mortgage Servicing for Borrowers Experiencing Payment Difficulties”, with a comment period ending on September 9, 2024....more

Summer Regulatory Round-Up | July 2024

The banking regulators have not yet gone out on vacation, as demonstrated by this grab-bag of announcements, speeches, rules and guidance: Acting Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC),...more

Supreme Court Has Driven Chevron to the Levee, and the Levee Is Dry

Little else gets regulatory lawyers more excited than changes to how the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is applied to regulators and the rules that they make, so as readers have likely seen already, the whole of the...more

Federal Regulators Publish Final Rule on Automated Valuation Models and AI That Imposes Obligations on Secondary Market Issuers,...

On June 6, 2024 federal regulators published a final rule addressing Quality Control Standards for Automated Valuation Models. This was a collaborative rulemaking effort that included regulators from the Office of the...more

CFPB Awkwardly Finalizes a Portion of Its Personal Financial Data Rights Rule

As we discussed in the fall over a series of articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) and reported on further in January, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is on a mission to allow consumers to more...more

Will Supreme Court Ground Tremors Cause National Bank Preemption Tsunami?

On May 30th, an unanimous Supreme Court ruled that the Second Circuit needed to take another shot at evaluating whether Bank of America, a national bank, can pre-empt a New York state law requiring the payment of interest on...more

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Discusses Gaps in Firms' Surveillance for Market Abuse

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported its observations on firms’ market abuse surveillance arrangements in the May edition of Market Watch. The newsletter looks at a peer review of surveillance model testing...more

The CFPB and NCSLT TRUSTS Saga: Movement on the Third Circuit Case and a Second CFPB Enforcement Action

As we reported in our Client and Friends memo last month, the Third Circuit published an opinion on March 19th finding that statutory trusts such as those that make up the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts (the “NCSLT...more

These Are Junk Fees

In the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB’s”) most recent Supervisory Highlights, published on April 24th, the agency identified a wide variety of fees that were improperly charged to mortgage borrowers. As...more

CFPB Uses Laboratory Experiments to Attack Junk Fees

On April 30, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a report called “Price Complexity in Laboratory Markets” that concluded that the financial services industry should keep pricing for financial...more

CFPB Litigation On Fire

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is engaged in a firestorm of tricky litigation these days. Some highlights, in addition to the Third Circuit’s NCSLT ruling we reported on previously: With respect to the...more

Third Circuit Decides Statutory Trusts Are Covered Persons: What This Means for the Securitization Market

On March 19, 2024, the Third Circuit handed down a decision that statutory trusts used as issuing entities for securitizations are considered “covered persons” for purposes of the Consumer Financial Protection Act ("CFPA"),...more

Groundbreaking and Informative – CFTC’s KuCoin Complaint

On March 26, 2024, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) filed a complaint (the “Complaint”) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) for injunctive and other relief against...more

Third Circuit Finds Statutory Trusts Are Subject to CFPB Jurisdiction

On Tuesday, the Third Circuit, handed down a decision in a case involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") and the National Collegiate Master Student Loan Trust ("NCMSL") that finds that statutory trusts used...more

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