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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
Companies that fall within the definition of “data provider” are expected by this fall to be required to comply with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed rule implementing Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act. ...more
Last month, industry saw the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issue a number of compliance aids in anticipation of two CFPB Debt Collection Final Rules becoming effective on November 30. On October 1, the CFPB...more
I. Introduction - On November 30, 2021, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection's ("CFPB") October and December 2020 Final Rules take effect. See 86 FR 48918-01. Among other things, the October and December 2020 Final...more
In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a new Compliance Aid; the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to Form N-PX with the goal of making it easier and more...more
In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) withdrew its proposal to delay the Debt Collection Final Rules; the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance...more
Each month, we host a 30-minute webinar outlining the month's key announcements and takeaways from the CFPB to be considered by financial services providers. In this month's article, we share our top "bites" covered during...more
Continuing our series of blog posts breaking down the CFPB’s final debt collection rule, we now discuss whether the November general election results are likely to have any impact on the final collection rule....more
On October 30, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released the first part of its long-awaited final Debt Collection Rule, which substantially updates and modernizes Regulation F, the implementing...more
Our blog post series has detailed a number of ways in which the CFPB’s final debt collection rule departs from last year’s NPRM. There are two additional topics approached very differently in the final rule: (1) the proposed...more
The CFPB’s debt collection final rule will significantly impact the operations of mortgage servicers. Not surprisingly, the CFPB declined to generally exempt mortgage servicers from the definition of a “debt collector” under...more
On October 30, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new final rule implementing the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). According the CFPB’s press release, the new final rule is designed “to...more
This latest installment of our blog posts about the CFPB debt collection rule examines how the final rule will impact credit reporting....more
In the next in our series of blog posts breaking down the CFPB’s final debt collection rule, we now turn to a discussion of how to understand and comply with the final rule’s inconvenient time and place provisions. For the...more
On October 30, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a long-awaited final rule revising Regulation F, which implements the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) of 1977. Prior to the...more