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CFPB settles claims against operator of training program arising out of income share agreements

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The CFPB recently announced the settlement of a bankruptcy court adversary proceeding filed jointly with the Attorneys General of 11 states against Prehired, LLC (Prehired) and two affiliated companies (Prehired Affiliates)...more

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Delaware Bankruptcy Court Enters $30M Stipulated Judgment Over Deceptive Student Loan Practices

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On November 20, Delaware Attorney General (AG) Kathy Jennings, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and 11 other states, announced a settlement in excess of $30 million with Prehired LLC and affiliated...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 3, Issue 9

Mortgage Lenders are Starting to Go Broke Amid Rate Spike and US Mortgage Lenders are Starting to Go Bankrupt — How This One Factor Could be Triggering the Worst Surge of Failures Since 2008 "Last year, two-thirds of the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Crossing the “The”: The Importance of Careful Drafting for Recorded Mortgages

In Enter. Bank v. The Ingros Fam. LLC, et al., 2022 WL 2283392 (Bankr. W.D. Pa. June 23, 2022), a lender faced a potentially costly decision when it mistakenly left the word “The” from a borrower’s name. In Ingros, First...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Unhappy Lenders Challenge Aggressive Debt Exchanges

Takeaways - Loan agreement provisions allowing borrowers to repurchase their loans to take advantage of steep debt discounts and restructure their debt became popular in the wake of the financial crisis. The meaning of some...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights, Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2021

All is Not Lost: Mitigating the Risk of Loss of a Delinquent Collateral Asset in the Era of Autonomous Zones - The birth of autonomous zones has led to uncertainty regarding the protection of a lienholder's collateral...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.17.2020 | Top Story: The Bear Market Roars, with Markets Falling nearly 13% as Whole Sectors of US Economy...

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As Americans [way-too] slowly come to the realization that COVID-19 is a very real and very present threat, the business world is changing around them at a staggering pace. Stocks nosedived again on Monday, with the three...more

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CFPB announces proposed consent order with companies alleged to have collected loans void under state law

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The CFPB announced that it has entered into a proposed consent order with Think Finance and six subsidiaries (collectively, the “Think Entities’) to settle the Bureau’s lawsuit filed in November 2017 that alleged the Think...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.11.2019 | Top Story: Twitter Screed Prompts Investigation of Apple Card Gender Discrimination

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Here’s about as 2019 as we can get in the financial world (with a healthy dose of 1950s-era gender discrimination for good measure): a series of tweets from tech entrepreneur David Heinemeier Hansson alleging gender...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Filling an Enforcement “Make-Whole”: Bankruptcy Court Enforces Prepayment Premium Notwithstanding Prepetition Loan Acceleration

On March 18, 2019, Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision enforcing a mortgage lender’s claim for a prepayment premium (a/k/a make-whole or...more

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