The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a United States federal agency established in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Agency is responsible for educating... more +
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a United States federal agency established in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Agency is responsible for educating consumers about financial products and services, enforcing federal consumer financial laws and studying trends in consumer financial markets.
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Critical Mortgage Regulatory Updates by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for 2013 and 2014
A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
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What’s Next from the CFPB
In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - FIRM NEWS - FIRM PUBLICATIONS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - SECURITIES - PRIVACY/DATA SECURITY - CRIMINAL...more
The CFPB and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have jointly launched a new financial resource tool to assist older adults and their caregivers in avoiding elder financial exploitation. Named “Money Smart for Older...more
In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; International; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - And the beat goes on… Another week with the White...more
In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - FIRM NEWS - FIRM PUBLICATIONS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - SECURITIES - CREDIT CARDS - PRIVACY/DATA SECURITY -...more
In the immediate aftermath of the crisis, it’s possible that those who identified securitisation as a financing model, rather than loan origination practices, as a principal cause of the crisis were all too ready to charge...more
As suggested by prior blog posts, I am no fan of the direction the CFPB, OCC and FDIC seem to be going with respect to payday and deposit advance loans. ...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s civil investigative demand (“CID”) authority has recently presented significant compliance difficulties for companies that have received requests for information relating to an...more
On April 24, the CFPB published a white paper on payday loan and deposit advance products that claims to show those products lead to a “cycle of high-cost borrowing.” On April 25, the FDIC and the OCC proposed guidance...more
In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - FIRM NEWS - FIRM PUBLICATIONS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - CREDIT CARDS - E-COMMERCE - PRIVACY/DATA SECURITY -...more
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC") and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the "FDIC") proposed guidance and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the...more
In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; and Executive Branch. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - The past week could be best described by one word. Chaos. In the House, a scheduled...more
Last Thursday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed guidance on deposit advance loans. The Federal Reserve Board declined to join the OCC and FDIC and instead...more
In This Issue: Financial Industry Developments: CFPB Proposed Clarifications on Qualified Mortgage Rules; SEC Credit Ratings Roundtable; FDIC Proposed Guidance on Deposit Advance Products; Rating Agency Developments; RMBS...more
In This Issue: - Regulators Could Step in with Tougher Rules as Bank Profits Rise - Bill Would Force Study of Basel III Impact on Bank Capital Costs - Regulator Wants Enforcement Powers Against Bank...more
The CFPB has issued a report on payday and deposit advance loans finding that for many consumers these products lead to a cycle of indebtedness. The loans generally have three features: they are small-dollar amounts;...more
Earlier today, the CFPB released a white paper reporting on its study of 15,000,000 storefront payday loans and 100,000 accounts eligible for deposit advances (of which approximately 15% involved a deposit advance during the...more
In This Issue: Leading the Past Week; Legislative Branch; Executive Branch; and Upcoming Hearings. Excerpt from Leading the Past Week - It was another incredibly busy week, but obviously our thoughts and...more
As financial institutions continue to strive for reduced costs and greater efficiencies, they are increasingly turning to third-party vendors to handle a wide variety of tasks, from marketing and sales to payment processing....more
On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") jointly issued final rules and guidelines that will require certain regulated entities...more
On April 9, the FDIC announced a series of nationwide banker teleconferences focused on the CFPB’s final mortgage rules. The first teleconference call is scheduled for May 2, 2013 and will focus on the...more
Fed Proposal on Annual Assessments - On April 15, the Fed requested comment on a proposed rule to establish an annual assessment for bank holding companies and savings and loan companies with $50 billion or greater in total...more
The FDIC has scheduled the following three free teleconferences on the CFPB’s new mortgage-related rules for officers and employees of FDIC-supervised institutions... ...more
Originally published in BNA’s Banking Report, 100 BBR 617 on 04/02/2013. Overall Trends & Outlook - In 2012, the federal banking agencies, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (‘‘FDIC’’), Office...more
In This Issue: - Financial Regulators Compete; JPMorgan Loses - Six Ways to Survive the U.S. Congress - How to Protect Your Brand from a Twitter Hacking - Blogs Worth Following - LEVICK In the News -...more
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and the Office of the Comptroller of...more
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