At yesterday’s joint FTC-CFPB roundtable on the debt collection industry, industry representatives advocated for a uniform, national standard for the documentation to be provided to debtors in the pre-litigation phase of the...more
6/10/2013
- CFPB Debt Debt Collection Documentation FTC Roundtable
Industry representatives and consumer advocates collectively lamented the high non-appearance rate of debtors in court in debt collection cases at yesterday’s joint FTC-CFPB roundtable on the debt collection industry....more
6/10/2013
- CFPB Court Appearances Debt Collection Documentation FTC
At yesterday’s joint FTC-CFPB roundtable on the debt collection industry, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) was referenced together with the “1970s” a number of times. Commissioner Julie Brill, in an unscripted...more
6/10/2013
- CFPB Debt Collection FDCPA FTC
The Staff Report on mobile payments recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) focuses on areas of concern discussed at the FTC’s April 2012 workshop. The report does not break much new ground, but it does...more
3/18/2013
- Data Protection FTC Mobile Devices Mobile Payments
The discussions at the ABA Consumer Financial Services Winter Meeting have reached biblical proportions (literally). The participants on yesterday’s CFPB Exams and Enforcement panel read from the New Testament on “ravening...more
1/7/2013
- CFPB Enforcement Attorneys