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Auto Finance – The CFPB Complaints Report — The Consumer Finance Podcast

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Troutman Pepper attorneys Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso helm this episode to discuss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) recent annual report on consumer complaints for 2023. Although the report primarily...more

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Military Lending Act violations alleged against title lender in Georgia class action

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A proposed class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on February 21, 2024 against TitleMax of Georgia, Inc. and TMX Finance LLC (together, “TitleMax”) accuses the Georgia-based...more

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Emory Law Journal Reports New Studies That Authors Claim Show Racial Inequities in Lender Advertisements

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A new essay published in the Emory Law Journal argues that two empirical studies of advertising by certain banks and payday lenders in Houston, Texas indicate that payday lenders steer African Americans and Latinos to their...more

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Fifth Circuit grants trade groups’ motion to extend stay of payment provisions’ compliance date

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The Fifth Circuit has entered an order staying the compliance date of the payment provisions in the CFPB’s 2017 final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (2017 Rule) until 286 days after the trade groups’ appeal...more

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CFPB Overcomes Challenge to PayDay Lending Rule

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On August 31, 2021, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an opinion upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Rule regulating payday lending.  Community Financial...more

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CFPB and trade groups file briefs on compliance date for payment provisions in payday loan rule

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The CFPB and the two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s 2017 final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (2017 Rule) have filed briefs with the Texas federal court regarding a compliance date for the 2017 Rule’s...more

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Regulation by Blog or Press Release?

CFPB Acting Director Warns of Enforcement on ‘Ability to Repay’ and Residential Evictions - In two recent communications, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) acting director is signaling that the...more

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It's the Final Countdown: The Small Dollar Rule's Looming Compliance Date

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In July 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("Bureau") at long last finalized the Rule governing Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans ("Small Dollar Rule" or "Rule"). The Rule, originally...more

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California Dept. of Business Oversight launches “true lender” investigation of auto title lender’s partnership with Utah bank

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On September 3, 2020, the California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) announced that it has launched a formal investigation into whether Wheels Financial Group, LLC d/b/a LoanMart, formerly one of California’s largest...more

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Court continues stay of litigation and compliance date in trade group lawsuit challenging CFPB payday loan rule (UPDATED)

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The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) entered an order on December 6 that once again...more

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Sen. Sherrod Brown Joins Consumer Groups in Applying Pressure to Encourage CFPB to Seek Lifting of Stay of the Compliance Date for...

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On August 14, 2019, Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote a letter imploring Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger to implement the payments provisions of the 2017 Payday...more

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Court continues stay of litigation and compliance date in trade group lawsuit challenging CFPB payday loan rule

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The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) entered an order on August 6 that once again...more

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Parties file another status report in trade group lawsuit challenging CFPB payday loan rule

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The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a new status report with the...more

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Ballard Spahr critiques CFPB payday loan rule’s payment provisions

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Last month, Ballard Spahr submitted two letters to the CFPB, critiquing the payment provisions of the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (the “Payment Provisions”). ...more

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CFPB issues final rule delaying compliance date of payday loan rule ability-to-repay provisions; August 19 compliance date for...

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The CFPB has issued a final rule delaying the compliance date for the ability-to-repay (ATR) provisions in its final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) for 15 months, until November 19, 2020....more

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Texas federal court again continues stay of CFPB payday loan rule and stay of compliance date

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The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) entered an order yesterday that once again continues...more

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CA Dept. of Business Oversight files action against title lender for CA law violations; launches investigation into whether...

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The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has filed an administrative enforcement action against a title lender for alleged violations of California law and launched an investigation into whether the interest...more

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State AGs threaten action against CFPB for delaying compliance date for payday loan rule

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A group of 24 Democratic state attorneys general and the D.C. attorney general have submitted a comment letter to the CFPB setting forth their opposition to the CFPB’s proposal to delay the compliance date for the...more

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Texas federal court continues stay of trade groups’ lawsuit challenging CFPB payday loan rule and stay of compliance date

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The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule)...more

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Tenth Circuit Affirms Partial Enforcement of Arbitration Clause

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The Tenth Circuit recently affirmed a district court’s decision partially compelling arbitration. Jesse Romero took out three title loans with TitleMax of New Mexico, Inc. Romero used his third loan to pay off his second loan...more

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CFPB does not seek lifting of stay of compliance date for payday loan rule’s payment provisions in new status report filed in...

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The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a new status report with the...more

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Parties file status report in trade group lawsuit challenging CFPB payday loan rule

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The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a status report with the...more

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Court stays CFPB payday loan rule compliance date

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This week, the court reversed course in the lawsuit filed by two industry trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule). ...more

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CFPB enters into consent order with small-dollar lender to settle alleged TILA and UDAAP violations arising from finance charge...

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The CFPB announced last week that it has entered into a consent order with Triton Management Group, Inc., a small-dollar lender, to settle the CFPB’s allegations that Triton had violated the Truth in Lending Act and the...more

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Plaintiffs in industry lawsuit challenging CFPB payday loan rule move for reconsideration

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We have previously blogged about the industry challenge to the CFPB’s rule on payday/vehicle title/high rate installment loans.  ...more

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