The FTC announced settlements of two lawsuits filed in a California federal district court alleging similar violations of the FTC Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), and the Truth in Lending Act by providers of student...more
9/17/2019
/ Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Debt Buyers ,
Debt Relief ,
Debt-Relief Industry ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fees ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FTC Act ,
Regulatory Violations ,
Settlement Agreements ,
Student Loans ,
Telemarketing Sales Rule ,
Truth in Lending Act (TILA) ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
The Attorneys General of 42 states and the District of Columbia (collectively, the States) have entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance/Assurance of Discontinuance (Agreement) with Encore Capital Group, Inc. and its...more
The CFPB announced last Friday that it had entered into a consent order with National Credit Adjusters, LLC (NCA), a privately-held company that owns several debt collection companies, and NCA’s former CEO and part-owner...more
A group of 21 state attorneys general have sent a letter to the Senate majority and minority leaders as well as to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee urging them to reject H.R. 3299 (“Protecting...more
7/6/2018
/ Attorney General ,
Debt Buyers ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Interest Rates ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Madden v Midland Funding ,
National Bank Act ,
Preemption ,
Proposed Legislation ,
True Lender ,
Usury
This past Thursday, by a vote of 31-21, the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2018 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. In addition to multiple provisions to reform the CFPB,...more
7/18/2017
/ Appropriations Bill ,
Arbitration ,
Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Debt Buyers ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Interest Rates ,
Lead Supervisory Authority ,
Madden v Midland Funding ,
National Bank Act ,
Pending Legislation ,
UDAAP
On July 12, 2017, a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Examining Legislative Proposals to Provide Targeted Regulatory Relief to Community Financial Institutions.” The...more
7/11/2017
/ Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Debt Buyers ,
Debt Collectors ,
FDCPA ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Committee ,
Financial Services Industry ,
GAO ,
Mortgages ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Truth in Lending Act (TILA) ,
UDAAP
In a recent blog post, Alan Kaplinsky and Scott Pearson wrote about the remarks made by CFPB Director Richard Cordray and Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry at the LendIt USA conference in New York City earlier this...more
The CFPB announced that, jointly with the New York Attorney General, it has filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court against three companies that purchased consumer debts and two of the companies’ individual principals...more
The CFPB has moved a step closer to issuing a debt collection rule by releasing an outline of the proposals it is considering in preparation for convening a small business review panel. The Small Business Regulatory...more
8/1/2016
/ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Debt Buyers ,
Debt Collection ,
Debt Collectors ,
Dodd-Frank ,
FDCPA ,
Financial Institutions ,
SBREFA ,
Small Business ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
Time-Barred Debt
The CFPB announced that it has entered into two consent orders involving debt collection litigation practices. A debt collection law firm and two of its partners are the subject of one consent order and a debt buyer is the...more
The CFPB has issued a bulletin (Compliance Bulletin 2015-07) to provide guidance to creditors, debt buyers and third-party debt collectors about compliance with the CFPA UDAAP prohibition and the FDCPA when conducting...more
We recently wrote about a new report from the National Consumer Law Center that urges the CFPB to ban the collection of debts on which the statute of limitations has run. In a blog post that was published earlier this week on...more