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Legislation to prohibit ‘trigger leads’ in mortgage industry reintroduced in House, Senate

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Legislation to prohibit so-called “trigger leads” in the homebuying process once again has been reintroduced in the House and Senate....more

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Mark Your Calendars: 2025 Compliance Dates for Key Consumer and Small Business Financial Services Regulations

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One of the primary challenges with working in the U.S. financial services space is keeping up with the ever-changing federal and state regulatory landscape. Juggling the day-to-day fire drills while staying atop of regulatory...more

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CFPB issues Fall Regulatory Agenda

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The CFPB has issued a list of regulatory matters under consideration between now and October, 2025, although many of the regulatory initiatives face an uncertain future once the Trump Administration takes office....more

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CFPB plans to issue proposed rule mitigating the financial consequences to abuse survivors

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The CFPB intends to issue a proposed rule to address the impact of credit reporting relating to accounts of survivors of domestic violence, elder abuse, and other forms of financial abuse....more

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CFPB Initiates FCRA Rulemaking to Address Coerced Debt

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On December 9, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) announced the launch of a rulemaking process addressing credit reporting on survivors of domestic violence, elder abuse, and other forms of financial...more

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CFPB Proposes Broad New Data Broker Rule That Would Greatly Expand the FCRA

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On December 3, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published its long anticipated proposed rule aimed at regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).  Although the CFPB’s future is...more

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CFPB issues proposal to prohibit use of medical debt information in credit decisions

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The steady drumbeat of steps during Rohit Chopra’s tenure as CFPB Director to call into question the reliability and predictability of medical debt information in credit underwriting reached a crescendo last week with the...more

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Florida Expands its “De-Banking” Law

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Florida is one of several states that has enacted “de-banking” legislation that requires financial institutions to provide consumers with fair access to financial products and services. On May 3, Governor DeSantis signed into...more

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Illinois Passes Legislation to Ban Reporting of Medical Debt

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On May 16, the Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 2933. The bill amends the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act making it unlawful for a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to create a consumer...more

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Revised Trigger Leads Bill Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives

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As previously reported, in 2023 bills were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 4198) and the U.S. Senate (S. 3502) to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to curtail the practice of trigger leads with...more

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Bills To Curtail Trigger Leads Introduced in Congress

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Bills have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 4198) and the U.S. Senate (S. 3502) to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to curtail the practice of trigger leads with mortgage loans....more

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CFPB Seeks to Expand Regulatory Powers Over Consumer Payment Tech Entities

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On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") issued a proposed rule that would grant it supervisory authority over major nonbank technology companies in the consumer digital payments space....more

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CFPB Seeks to Remove Medical Bills from Credit Reports

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On September 21, 2023, the CFPB announced it is undertaking a rulemaking process to remove medical bill tradelines from consumer reports and prohibit creditors from relying on medical bills during underwriting....more

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