The CFPB Highlights Alleged Deceptive Debt Collection Practices
CFPB's Supervisory Highlights on Auto-Finance and Auto-Servicing — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
CFPB’s Supervisory Highlights on Auto-Finance and Auto-Servicing — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: CFPB’s Proposed Mortgage Servicing Rule Amendments: Understanding the Impact on Loss Mitigation, Foreclosure, and Language Access
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: State Fair Access and Debanking Laws Bring Country’s Political and Cultural Divisions to the Fore
Introducing Heryka Knoespel: A New Partner at Troutman Pepper — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its 7-2 opinion in CFSA v. CFPB, holding that the funding mechanism for the CFPB created in the Dodd-Frank Act (a capped amount each year from the “combined earnings of the Federal...more
On December 14, the Financial Stability Oversight Counsel released its 2023 Annual Report on vulnerabilities in financial stability risks and recommendations to mitigate those risks. ...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the November 2023 webinar....more
Regulatory Developments - Overdraft Protection Programs: Risk Management Practices - On April 26, the OCC issued guidance in OCC Bulletin 2013-12, “Overdraft Protection Programs: Risk Management Practices,” to...more
On April 21, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) released a proposed analytic framework for financial stability risks, “intended to provide greater transparency to the public about how [FSOC] identifies,...more
FDIC Board Governance Dispute on Review of Bank Mergers Aired Publicly - CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on December 9 published on the CFPB’s website a blog post captioned “How Should Regulators Review Bank Mergers?” in...more
In This Issue. The Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) issued a report acknowledging climate change as threat to financial stability; Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman advocates for...more
As spring turns to summer, climate change is on our minds. A new day, a new story about how financial institutions are addressing climate-related risks. In the past few months, six major banks—Bank of America, JPMorgan...more
In the News. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and more than 50 federal and state law enforcement partners, announced Operation Corrupt Collector, a nationwide law...more
Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted no-action relief for fund boards; the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) announced the rescission of the “systemically important...more
The U.S. Senate on March 14 passed S.2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the Act), by a vote of 67 to 31. ...more
The U.S. Senate on March 14 passed S.2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the Act), by a vote of 67 to 31. Although the Act would not make the sweeping changes to the Dodd-Frank Act found...more
On December 14, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), which was established by the Dodd-Frank Act to analyze and mitigate potential threats to the financial sector, released its first report under the Trump...more
In a statement released today, Acting Comptroller Keith Noreika announced that he will not petition the Financial Stability Oversight Council to stay the effective date of the CFPB’s final arbitration rule....more
Keith Noreika, the Acting Comptroller of the Currency, has sent a letter dated July 17 to Director Cordray asking him to delay publication of the CFPB’s final arbitration rule in the Federal Register. The July 17 letter...more
Director Corday has sent a letter to Keith Noreika, the Acting Comptroller of the Currency, responding to Mr. Noreika’s July 10 letter in which he stated that OCC staff had expressed safety and soundness concerns arising from...more
In addition to the passage of legislation amending the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA), disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, and a legal challenge filed in court, a fourth potential route for stopping the CFPB’s final...more
On June 8, 2017, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (the “CHOICE Act”) was passed on a party line vote by the U.S. House of Representatives, with nearly all Republicans voting in support and nearly all Democrats voting against...more
On February 28, 2017, B. Dan Berger, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (the “NAFCU“), urged regulatory relief for credit unions in a letter submitted to the...more
What if Dodd-Frank and Basel III were to largely go away? Eliminating Dodd-Frank has been a hobbyhorse of Representative Hensarling, the chair of the House Services Committee, for several years and has figured prominently in...more
On February 3, 2017, the President issued an Executive Order titled “Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System.” The Executive Order is a high-level policy statement consisting of a series of Core...more
The election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, along with the Republican control of the majority of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, will likely result in significant changes in...more
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision dismissing a bank’s challenge to the constitutionality of the CFPB based on lack of standing. The district court had previously concluded that compliance...more
Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a D.C. District Court decision dismissing a bank’s complaint challenging the constitutionality of the CFPB based on lack of standing. The district court had concluded that...more
The issue of the CFPB’s constitutionality reemerged last week in court and Congress. On the judicial front, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, et al. v. Lew, et al.,...more