Senate Bill 1351, known as the Illinois Student Loan Bill of Rights, was vetoed at the end of last week by the state’s Republican Governor. The bill would have created a student loan ombudsman and implemented new...more
A debt-collection law firm's overstatements in a state court complaint of $3,000 in the principal amount due and 0.315 percent in the interest rate were actionable under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) as...more
The CFPB has released a new report, “Older consumers and student loan debt by state.” The new report is intended to be a supplement to the CFPB’s January 2017 “Snapshot” report that contained statistics on the growing number...more
The CFPB has issued two new reports concerning student loans. The first report, “CFPB Data Point: Student Loan Repayment,” examines how the payment patterns of student loan borrowers have changed over the last 14 years. The...more
The Department of Defense (DoD) is reported to have rejected the request of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (NAFCU) to extend the October 3, 2017 date for credit card compliance with the Military...more
The Minnesota Supreme Court recently ruled that two for-profit postsecondary education schools had charged usurious interest rates on student loans and could not charge rates greater than 8% without obtaining a lending...more
Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against a foreclosure firm—Reimer, Arnovitz, Chernek & Jeffrey (the Reimer firm)—under the Fair Debt Collection Practices...more
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced that it has reopened and extended until September 1, 2017 the comment period on its Request for Input on improving language access in mortgage lending and servicing. The FHFA...more
The National Council of Higher Education Resources (NCHER), a national trade association representing higher education finance organizations, has written to the Department of Education urging the ED to issue preemption...more
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has announced that it has extended until July 31, 2017 the comment period on its Request for Input on improving language access in mortgage lending and servicing....more
Education Finance Council, a national trade association representing state-based nonprofit higher education finance organizations, has asked the Department of Education to “publicly state” that the ED’s rules governing...more
A group of eight trade associations has sent a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) asking the FHFA to extend by at least 45 days the comment period on the FHFA’s Request for Input (RFI) on improving language...more
A group of Democratic Senators have introduced a bill, the “Military Consumer Protection Act” (S. 1565), that would amend the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA) to include various sections of the Servicemembers Civil...more
In conjunction with its public event yesterday on student loan servicing, the CFPB issued a new report, “Staying on track while giving back.” The report, which provides a mid-year update on student loan complaints,...more
The CFPB will hold a public event on June 22, 2017 in Raleigh, N.C. about student loan servicing. The CFPB’s announcement provides no description other than that the event will feature remarks from Director Cordray and North...more
The West Virginia Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of a debt collector in an action alleging a violation of West Virginia’s Consumer Credit and Protection Act. In its June 12 decision, the court held that call volume,...more
The CFPB announced that it sent letters to “top retail credit card companies” encouraging them to use zero-interest promotions instead of deferred-interest promotions. The CFPB also provided a sample letter and published a...more
The California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS) has filed a complaint in D.C. federal district court against the Dept. of Education and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to overturn the “borrower defense”...more
6/8/2017
/ Academic Misconduct ,
Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Banking Sector ,
Borrower Defense Rule ,
Class Action ,
Class Action Arbitration Waivers ,
Consumer Contracts ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Department of Education ,
Educational Institutions ,
Federal Student Loans ,
Final Rules ,
Higher Education Act ,
Title IV
In a notice published earlier this week in the Federal Register, the CFPB announced that it plans to seek OMB approval to conduct an online survey of approximately 8,000 individuals as part of its research on debt collection...more
Entities engaged in the business of loan solicitation are now required to be licensed with the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation following the recent enactment of Act 22. Loan comparison websites, lead generators,...more
6/5/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Licensing Rules ,
Loan Guarantee Solicitation ,
Money Transmitter ,
Mortgage Loan Originators ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgages ,
New Legislation ,
Solicitation Provisions ,
Virtual Currency
The CFPB’s Student Loan Ombudsman has released an update setting forth the CFPB’s “preliminary observations” based on the data it received in response to a voluntary request for information sent to several of the largest...more
The CFPB’s newly-released Spring 2017 edition of Supervisory Highlights covers supervisory activities generally completed between September and December 2016. The report indicates that supervisory resolutions resulted in...more
4/28/2017
/ Ability-to-Repay ,
Automotive Loans ,
Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Fair Lending ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Mortgage Loan Originators ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgages ,
Regulation X ,
Regulation Z ,
Supervisory Highlights
A group of 20 state attorneys general, the D.C. attorney general, and the Executive Director of the Office of Consumer Protection of Hawaii have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticizing...more
4/27/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Debt Collection ,
Department of Education ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Loan Servicer ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Student Loans
In its new annual report covering its fair lending activities during 2016, the CFPB identifies the following three areas on which it “will increase our focus” in 2017...more
4/20/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Dodd-Frank ,
ECOA ,
Fair Lending ,
Financial Institutions ,
HMDA ,
Loans ,
Mortgages ,
Regulation B ,
Regulation C ,
Small Business ,
Student Loans
The CFPB has issued another request for information about the credit card market that identifies significant new issues of CFPB interest. The request is intended to inform the CFPB’s biennial review of the credit card market...more
3/10/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
CARD Act ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Credit Cards ,
Creditors ,
Debt Collection ,
Deferred Interest Products ,
EMV ,
Innovation ,
Online Banking ,
Request For Information ,
Rewards Programs ,
Subprime Loans