Episode 25: 10 Factors That May Hinder a Contractor’s Ability to Repay Its Bank Loans and Threaten Its Existence
Critical Mortgage Regulatory Updates by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for 2013 and 2014
On January 14, a D.C. federal judge granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) motion to dismiss a case filed by the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB), after the NALCAB contested...more
On August 31, 2021, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas issued an opinion upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Rule regulating payday lending. Community Financial...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently filed a motion to lift the stay of the compliance date for the “payment provisions” in the Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans Rule (CFPB...more
CFPB Acting Director Warns of Enforcement on ‘Ability to Repay’ and Residential Evictions - In two recent communications, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) acting director is signaling that the...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently published two final rules revising its Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgage Rule (ATR/QM Rule). The principal purpose of these final rules is to avoid anticipated...more
The CFPB has published a notice in the Federal Register indicating that it has hired a contractor to conduct one-on-one consumer interviews “to evaluate and refine potential options for a Bureau-designed payday loan...more
The CFPB and the two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s 2017 final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (2017 Rule) have filed a joint motion asking the Texas federal district court hearing the trade groups’...more
On Wednesday, February 5, the House Financial Services Committee will hold the first part of a two-part hearing on “rent-a-bank” structures. The hearing is titled “Rent-A-Bank Schemes and New Debt Traps: Assessing Efforts to...more
The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) entered an order on December 6 that once again...more
On August 14, 2019, Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote a letter imploring Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger to implement the payments provisions of the 2017 Payday...more
The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) entered an order on August 6 that once again...more
The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a new status report with the...more
Last month, Ballard Spahr submitted two letters to the CFPB, critiquing the payment provisions of the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (the “Payment Provisions”). ...more
The CFPB has issued a final rule delaying the compliance date for the ability-to-repay (ATR) provisions in its final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) for 15 months, until November 19, 2020....more
The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) entered an order yesterday that once again continues...more
A group of 24 Democratic state attorneys general and the D.C. attorney general have submitted a comment letter to the CFPB setting forth their opposition to the CFPB’s proposal to delay the compliance date for the...more
The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit filed by two trade groups challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule)...more
The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a status report with the...more
The CFPB’s proposal to revise its final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule to rescind the rule’s ability-to-repay (ATR) provisions in their entirety and its proposal to delay the compliance date for the ATR...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued highly anticipated proposed revisions to its final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule that would rescind the rule's ability-to-repay provisions—which...more
On Tuesday, the small-dollar lending industry received a favorable ruling in Community Financial Services Association of America v. CFPB. A Texas federal court reversed course by staying the August 19, 2019, compliance date...more
The CFPB has published a final rule regarding various annual adjustments it is required to make under provisions of Regulation Z (TILA) that implement the CARD Act, HOEPA, and the ability to repay/qualified mortgage...more
A group of Democratic senators (joined by two independent Senators) has sent a letter to Leandra English and Mick Mulvaney urging them to abandon any efforts by the CFPB to reconsider its final payday/auto title/high-rate...more
The American Banker has reported that last week, Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to override the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule...more