On August 3, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks comment on ways to clarify the Equal Credit Opportunity Act’s (ECOA) implementing regulation, Regulation...more
8/5/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Disparate Impact ,
ECOA ,
Fair Lending ,
Financing ,
Public Assistance ,
Request For Information ,
Small Business Loans
The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has issued a Release that summarizes the provisions of California Assembly Bill 539 and addresses some implementation issues. This bill was chaptered as Chapter 708 of the...more
On March 26, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or “Bureau”) published a Request for Information (RFI) on the CFPB’s inherited regulations and inherited rulemaking authorities. The RFI is the ninth in a...more
On February 16, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding use of alternative data and modeling techniques in the consumer lending “credit process.” The...more
EDITOR’S NOTE -
Hope you survived all of those awkward Thanksgiving holiday conversations— amazing how divided people are on whether the court got it right in the PHH case, isn’t it? So on we go into the holiday season,...more
12/7/2016
/ Arbitration ,
Article III ,
Blockchain ,
CalOPPA ,
Consent Order ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Credit Card Surcharges ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Distributed Denial of Service ,
ECOA ,
FDCPA ,
Federal Reserve ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FinTech ,
HMDA ,
HUD ,
LGBTQ ,
Military Lending Act ,
NYDFS ,
OCC ,
OIG ,
Prepaid Payment Products ,
Risk Management ,
SCRA ,
Spokeo v Robins ,
Truth in Lending Act (TILA)
On June 2, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its long-anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking on short-term consumer lending. The proposed rule follows the CFPB’s March 2015 release of an outline of...more
6/15/2016
/ Ability-to-Repay ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Debt Collection ,
Installment Agreements ,
Military Lending Act ,
Payday Loans ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Short-Term Loans ,
Truth in Lending Act (TILA) ,
UDAAP
On April 15, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced a final rule (“Final Rule”) that suspends for one year the requirement under the Truth in Lending Act and implemented by Regulation Z that credit...more
On March 19, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a notice and request for information (“2015 RFI”) regarding the impact of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009...more
On December 29, 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report, entitled “The Extension of High-Cost Credit to Servicemembers and Their Families” (“Report”). According to the CFPB, the Report provides...more
On September 29, 2014, the Department of Defense (DOD) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend its regulation implementing the Military Lending Act (MLA), 32 C.F.R. Part 232, to significantly expand the...more