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Consumer Finance Podcast Monitor Episode: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Final Section 1071 Rule on Small Business... [Video]

At the end of March 2023, the CFPB issued its long-awaited final rule to implement Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Section 1071 amended the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to require financial institutions to collect and...more

Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Recent Federal and State Debt Collection Developments [Video]

Third-party debt collectors, first-party creditors, and debt buyers face an ever-evolving federal and state regulatory landscape as well as ongoing private litigation. We first look at the impact of the CFPB’s most recent...more

California Updates Data Breach Notification Statute

Three bills that will update California’s data breach notification requirements have been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. The bills impose specific requirements on providing breach notification to consumers, add a...more

Federal, State Law Preempts New York City Responsible Banking Act, Federal Court Rules

New York City’s Responsible Banking Act (RBA) is preempted by federal and state law, a federal court has ruled. Pursuant to the New York City Charter, only financial institutions that are designated “deposit banks” by the...more

OCC Report Identifies Risks to Banks, Sets Supervisory Priorities

A new report issued by the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) identifies top safety and soundness risks to national banks and federal savings associations, as well as OCC supervisory priorities for the...more

CFPB enforcement head underscores CFPB’s limited use of “abusive ” prong of UDAAP

Tony Alexis, the head of enforcement at the CFPB, spoke today in Chicago at a program sponsored by the Committee on Consumer Financial Services at the American Bar Association Section of Business Law’s Annual Meeting. The...more

CFPB issues bulletin on UDAAP risks in marketing credit card promotional APR offers

The CFPB has issued a bulletin warning credit card issuers that offer certain promotional APRs of the risk that they may be engaging in deceptive and/or abusive acts or practices when making solicitations for such offers even...more

Despite FAQs and OCC Interim Examination Procedures, Little Illumination So Far for Volcker Rule Compliance

June 2014 saw the publication of some interagency FAQs on the Volcker Rule (the Rule) and interim procedures from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for its examiners to use in assessing progress by national...more

N.Y. Banking and Insurance Superintendent Unveils Aggressive Agenda

Benjamin M. Lawsky, who heads the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), indicated that his agency is seriously considering more aggressive investigation and pursuit of individuals whose malfeasance has led...more

CA federal court rejects challenge to CFPB’s constitutionality

The California federal district court hearing the CFPB’s enforcement action against Morgan Drexen has rejected Morgan Drexen’s challenge to the CFPB’s constitutionality. Although similar challenges have been made in other...more

OIG issues report criticizing CFPB’s practice of bringing enforcement attorneys to exams

Effective this past November 1, the CFPB ended its controversial practice of having enforcement attorneys regularly participate in examinations of supervised entities. Since first learning of the CFPB’s practice, we had...more

FTC Settles First FCRA Risk-Based Pricing Notice Enforcement Action

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced the settlement of its first enforcement action for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) risk-based pricing rule (Rule). The settlement demonstrates that...more

CFPB Issues Aggressive Rulemaking Agenda

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s recently released fall 2013 rulemaking agenda portends aggressive rulemaking by the Bureau in 2014. With most of the rulemaking mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act now completed,...more

New York Payday Loan Crackdown Continues as DFS Subpoenas 16 Lead Generators

The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) opened a new front in its campaign against the payday lending industry by subpoenaing 16 online lead generation firms that allegedly collected and sold consumers’...more

OCC Adds Substantial New Risk Management Burdens for Third-Party Relationships

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently issued a new Bulletin 2013-29 containing substantially more onerous risk management guidance for third-party business relationships (3PRs) of national banks and...more

OCC Announces Standards for Third-Party Consultants

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently issued guidance on what it looks for when requiring national banks and federal thrifts in enforcement orders to engage third-party consultants (3PCs). Bulletin...more

CFPB plans to continue targeting of individuals in enforcement actions

In a speech last week to the Reuters Washington Summit, Director Cordray is reported to have indicated that the CFPB is committed to pursuing individuals, and not just companies, when exercising its enforcement authority. Mr....more

CFPB Warns Employers on Required Use of Payroll Cards

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a bulletin warning employers that they cannot require employees to receive their wages on payroll cards. The bulletin appears to respond to the explosive growth in the use...more

A tale of two lawsuits: CFPB sues Morgan Drexen

Yesterday, the CFPB filed a lawsuit against Morgan Drexen, the company that on July 22 sued the CFPB claiming that the Bureau’s structure violates the Constitution’s separation of powers....more

Peggy Twohig of CFPB clarifies its expectations about self-reporting violations of law

My colleagues, Chris Willis and Barbara Mishkin, have previously blogged here and here about the CFPB’s recent guidance advising banks and non-banks subject to its jurisdiction to investigate and self-report to the Bureau...more

New York Takes Aim at Internet Payday Lenders and Other Industry Players

The Cuomo administration, through the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), recently announced aggressive enforcement-related activities in an ongoing DFS investigation designed to stop supposedly unlawful...more

FTC Enforcement Action against Debt Collector Ends in Record Settlement

The Federal Trade Commission’s recent announcement that it entered into a record settlement with “the world’s largest debt collection operation” demonstrates that it intends to continue its vigorous enforcement of the Fair...more

CFPB Targets Debt Collection in New UDAAP Bulletins, Complaint System, Consumer Action Letters

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made clear that debt collection continues to be a major focus by issuing two new bulletins and five action letters for consumers to use when responding to debt collectors....more

Oklahoma Enacts Private Student Loan Requirements

Oklahoma has enacted new requirements for private student loans that become effective on July 1, 2013. The requirements are set forth in the Oklahoma Private Student Loan Transparency Act, a part of House Bill No. 1829....more

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