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Hudson Cook, LLP

[Webinar] Preparing for the New CFPB Enforcement Order Registry - June 27th, 2:00 pm ET

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Nonbank financial services companies with prior enforcement orders are preparing for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) new Registry, which takes effect September 16. Nonbank consumer lenders, loan servicers,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Takes Action Against Owners of Small Dollar Lender for Hiding Money to Avoid Penalties

On June 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed an order to resolve its 2023 lawsuit against the former CEO of a short-term small dollar lender and his spouse, in connection with a series of fraudulent transfers...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Sues Fintech for Deceptive Practices Surrounding Tipping Service

On May 17, the CFPB filed a lawsuit against a California-based fintech that operates a nationwide website and mobile-application based peer-to-peer lending platform through which consumers can obtain small-dollar, short-term...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Lawsuit Challenges CFPB Reporting Rule for Small Business Lending

On April 26, an association of Texas state banking organizations and a Texas minority depository institution filed a joint complaint against the CFPB in Texas federal court seeking to invalidate a recently finalized agency...more

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CFPB guidance on pay-to-pay fees impacts consumer loan agreements

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Consumer debt collectors may not be permitted to charge consumers “convenience fees” for card payments, which the Consumer Financial Protection Board (the “CFPB”) calls “pay-to-pay” fees, unless the underlying loan agreement...more

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Expectations For CFPB's Fair Lending Agenda Under Biden

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It is clear just a few weeks into the Biden administration that fair lending and racial equity will return as a central focus of regulators under President Joe Biden. Biden issued a memorandum his first week in office...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

CFPB Promises “Flexible” Approach to Credit Reporting During Pandemic

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In a policy statement released on April 1, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) stated that it will take a “flexible supervisory and enforcement approach” during the COVID-19 pandemic....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

HUD and DOJ Release Memorandum on the Application and Enforcement of FHA Violations Involving the False Claims Act

In an effort to provide clarity and certainty to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) approved lenders, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Data Modeling Remains Auto Finance Target in CFPB’s Fair Lending Governance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made it clear that it will continue to target auto finance lenders as one of its top supervisory and enforcement priorities in the Fair Lending Report of the Bureau of Consumer...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Does the New Debt Collection Rule Apply to First-Party Creditors?

Last November, Bradley’s Financial Services Perspectives team predicted that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) then upcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Does the New Debt Collection Rule Apply...more

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CFPB Mulvaney Moments

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Last week CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney had a busy speaking calendar in Washington, D.C. and we all should be listening. He addressed the Credit Union National Association (CUNA)’s Government Affairs Conference on...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Fighting Back Against CFPB Demands

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An increasing number of banks, mortgage lenders, auto finance companies and other financial services industry participants are dealing with inquiries, investigations and actual or threatened legal claims from the Consumer...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FTC confirms continued commitment to vigorous enforcement in letter to CFPB

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In its annual letter to the CFPB on its 2012 administrative and enforcement activities related to Regulations B (ECOA), E (Electronic Fund Transfers), Z (TILA) and M (Consumer Leasing), the FTC stressed that it is “committed...more

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