Podcast - The CFPB's Effort to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Reports
AI in Payments: Practical Applications and Legal Insights — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: How the CFPB Is Using Interpretive Rules to Expand Regulatory Requirements for Innovative Consumer Financial Products; Part Two: Earned Wage Access
Navigating Hot Topics in Consumer Finance: Litigation Trends, Regulatory Changes, and Medical Debt Collection – The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Episode: How the CFPB Is Using Interpretive Rules to Expand Regulatory Requirements for Innovative Consumer Financial Products; Part One: Buy-Now, Pay-Later
Podcast - Supreme Court Upholds CFPB Funding Structure
Navigating the CFPB's Controversial Interpretive Rule on BNPL Products — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Regulation of Negative Option Consumer Contracts – Silence as Consent
CFPB's Focus on Student Loan Servicing: Insights from the Office of Servicemember Affairs Report — The Consumer Finance Podcast
FTC and CFPB Focus on Medical, Rental Debt Collection Practices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau vs. the Video Game Industry
Exploring the CFPB's Stance on AI in Financial Services — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The CFPB's Report on Negative Equity in Auto Lending — Crossover Episode With Moving the Metal Podcast — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Why Retailers and Merchants Should Pay Attention to the CFPB - The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB Warns of Manipulation in Digital Comparison Shopping Tools
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The CFPB’s Registry of Nonbanks and Circular that Certain Contract Terms Violate Law
Navigating FCRA and Debt Collection With Special Guest Bridgeforce’s Michelle Macartney — The Consumer Finance Podcast
FTC CFPB Enforcement Report — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Earned Wage Access: Exploring the CFPB's Proposed Interpretive Rule — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Credit Card Late Fees Have the CFPB's Interest
On October 10, the CFPB settled an action against a California-based private arbitration company permanently banning it from arbitrating disputes related to consumer financial products or services. The company operates an...more
In this episode of Troutman Pepper's FCRA Focus podcast, host Kim Phan delves into the topic of dispute resolution through the e-OSCAR system with special guest, Joel Strickland, the director of customer success at e-OSCAR....more
Point-of-sale financing arrangements payable in four or fewer interest-free installments, known as buy now, pay later (BNPL) arrangements, have soared since their initial breakthrough during the pandemic. Unlike conventional...more
A federal magistrate judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) must produce three employees for depositions, denying the agency’s motion for a protective order....more
With plaintiff attorneys seeing potential large dollar settlements and verdicts, along with increased regulatory scrutiny, banks need to review their overdraft practices. As noted by the American Bankers Association, banks...more
Much has been written about the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) industry in the recent past. Consumers enjoy the payment flexibility and interest-free features of many BNPL products and frequently use them as a substitute payment...more
On November 10, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-07 (hereinafter, “the Circular”). The Circular resolves two issues for credit reporting agencies...more
On April 1, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provided guidance on how it plans to handle consumer credit reporting oversight during COVID-19. As part of that guidance, the CFPB stated that it intends to...more
The CFPB and FTC announced the issues that the panels will discuss at the workshop on accuracy in consumer reporting that the agencies will co-host on December 10, 2019. ...more
On September 25, 2019, the CFPB filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Maryland against Maryland-based debt collector FCO Holding, Inc. (“FCO”), its various subsidiaries and Michael E. Sobota, the CEO, president,...more
More than five years after it issued its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the CFPB appears poised to issue its proposed debt collection rules. The first hint that this was imminent came in the fall of 2018 when the...more
On October 18, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a set of guiding principles for participants in the financial data sharing and aggregation industry. The publication of the consumer protection...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued its final rule to amend provisions of Regulation E and Regulation Z to further regulate prepaid card products, or “prepaid accounts.” As discussed below, the rule generally...more
On October 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued its long-awaited final rule to further regulate prepaid card products, or “prepaid accounts” (the “Final Rule” or “Rule”). The Final Rule follows...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the U.S. published an outline of proposals on July 28, 2016 to govern consumer debt collection by debt collectors including third-party collection agencies, debt buyers,...more
Regulatory Developments - CFPB Announces Steps to Improve Checking Account Access - On Feb. 3, the CFPB announced that it was taking three steps to expand checking account access to the approximately 10 million...more
In a recent blog post, Dan Dwyer, a Staff Attorney with the FTC’s Division of Financial Practices, provided advice to assist consumers in communicating with a debt collector when the consumer does not recognize the debt. The...more
The CFPB has issued its third Financial Literacy Annual Report to Congress. The report covers the CFPB’s activities to improve consumer financial literacy during the period from June 2014 through September 2015. The report’s...more
Regulatory Developments - FINRA Files Proposed Rule Change to Apply Markup Rule to Government Securities: On Sept. 30 FINRA filed with the SEC a proposed rule change, published in the Federal Register on Oct. 6, to...more
We have previously blogged about the comment letter concerning the CFPB’s March 10, 2015 Study on consumer arbitration that we submitted to the CFPB on behalf of the American Bankers Association, the Consumer Bankers...more
In a recent blog post, Professor Jeff Sovern responded to our blog post indicating that the CFPB’s March 10, 2014 Arbitration Study strongly supports the industry’s view that consumers fare better in arbitration than...more
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs on July 15, CFPB Director Richard Cordray affirmed the Bureau’s intention to proceed with rulemaking governing arbitration clauses in consumer...more
On December 12, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published its “Arbitration Study Preliminary Results,” mandated by Section 1028(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act (the “Study”). Unfortunately (and despite its statements...more