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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - September 2024 # 2

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

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CFPB: Most debt collection complaints in 2023 were attempts to collect debts not owed

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The most frequent consumer debt collection complaints filed with the CFPB in 2023 were attempts to collect debts that actually were not owed, the bureau said in its annual Fair Debt Collection Practices Act report....more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - September 2024

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week... ...more

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Federal Judge Sanctions Pittsburgh Law Firm for Writing ‘Imaginary’ Letters on Behalf of Clients in Debt Disputes

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A Pennsylvania federal judge has imposed sanctions and lambasted a law firm and its attorneys for having employees write falsified letters on behalf of clients involved in debt collection disputes....more

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Plaintiffs declare that Fort Worth Chamber is the CFPB’s “natural adversary” in their opposition brief to the CFPB’s motion to...

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On August 12, 2024, the plaintiffs filed their brief in opposition to the CFPB’s motion to dismiss Plaintiff Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce (Fort Worth Chamber) for lack of standing and if granted, transfer the case to the...more

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Plaintiffs file their brief in opposition to CFPB’s motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction in the credit card late fee...

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On August 8, 2024, the plaintiffs filed their brief in opposition to the CFPB’s motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction in the lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s credit card late fee final rule (“Rule”). In their brief, the...more

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Chopra Defends CFPB’s Medical Debt Proposed Rule

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CFPB Director Rohit Chopra on Thursday defended his agency’s proposed rule to prohibit the listing of medical debt on credit reports, contending that such debts are not a fair indication of a person’s financial health....more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - August 2024

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - July 2024 # 5

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

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CFPB files motion to dismiss Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce for lack of standing and if granted, renews its motion to transfer the...

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On July 29, 2024, the CFPB filed a motion to dismiss the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce as a Plaintiff for lack of standing and if granted, transfer the case to a the Federal District Court for D.C. In its brief, the CFPB...more

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Judge Pittman (N.D. Texas) questions whether Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce has standing to pursue claims seeking to invalidate...

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We recently reported that on July 18 the CFPB, upon remand from the Fifth Circuit, re-filed its notice of supplemental authority in support of its motion to dismiss or transfer the case, motion to dissolve the preliminary...more

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CFPB Moves to Dissolve Preliminary Injunction and Supplements Motion to Transfer in Credit Card Late Fee Rule Case; Court...

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Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in support of its motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction that has stayed...more

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CFPB Refiles its Notice of Supplemental Authority in Support of its Motion to Transfer Venue under Section 1406(a) and Motion and...

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On July 18, 2024, in the lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s credit card late fee rule (Rule), the CFPB refiled its notice of supplemental authority in support of its motion to dismiss or transfer the case, motion to dissolve the...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - July 2024 # 3

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

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Fifth Circuit issues mandate in connection with its order reversing District Court’s order transferring venue to DC District Court...

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On July 11, 2024, the CFPB filed its unopposed Motion for the Immediate Issuance of the Mandate, the CFPB stated that they do not intend to seek a rehearing before the same panel or en banc and requested the Fifth Circuit to...more

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The CFPB’s Increased Focus on Medical Financing Products

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Over the course of the last year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) has increased its scrutiny of medical financing products, such as medical credit cards and installment loans. In July 2023, the CFPB...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules CFPB Credit Card Late Fee Rule Case Stays in Texas

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On June 18, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of mandamus, effectively halting the transfer of the lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau)...more

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Fifth Circuit (again) rejects transfer of credit card late fee case to D.C.

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On June 19, 2024, the Fifth Circuit dissolved the district court’s order transferring the case challenging the CFPB’s credit card late fee rule. In granting the writ of mandamus filed by the plaintiff trade associations...more

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter - June 2024 # 3

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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more

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Banks Should Continue to Prep for CFPB Data Rule Rollout

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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

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CFPB Proposed Rule Banning Reporting of Medical Debt

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On June 11, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a proposed rule amending Regulation V, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), concerning medical debt. The proposed rule would...more

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CFPB responds to plaintiffs’ mandamus petition in Fifth Circuit seeking to block second transfer to D.D.C. of lawsuit challenging...

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If this blog post gives our readers a feeling of déjà vu, there’s a good reason—the latest developments in the lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s final credit card late fee rule (Rule) are a rerun of earlier developments in the...more

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Transfer Redux: Once again, CFPB Late Fee litigation transferred from Texas to DC, transfer challenged in Fifth Circuit

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In a replay of earlier events, in response to an emergency petition for writ of mandamus and administrative stay of transfer filed by the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the legality of the CFPB’s credit card late fee...more

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Texas District Court Orders Transfer of the Credit Card Late Fee Rule Lawsuit to D.C. … Again: Fifth Circuit Promptly Issues Stay

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On Tuesday, the lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau) credit card late fee rule (Final Rule) was ordered to be transferred from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...more

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Former CFPB Director Kraninger calls out the CFPB for manipulating data to serve a partisan agenda

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Florida Bankers Association President and CEO and former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Kathy Kraninger wrote an editorial in the May 14, 2024 American Banker titled “CFPB Must Stop Manipulating...more

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