Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What Banking Leaders Need to Know About the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling That the CFPB’s Funding Mechanism is Constitutional Part I
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Understanding the Credit Card Competition Act a/k/a Durbin 2.0
Analyzing the Credit Card Competition Act of 2023 - Payments Pros: The Payments Law Podcast
Rewards Programs and Co-Brand Relationships Between Credit Card Issuers and Merchants - The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB’s Increasingly Active Interest in Credit Reporting - FCRA Focus Podcast
The CFPB published its Consumer Response Annual Report for 2023, which discusses the consumer complaints received by the CFPB in that year and how companies responded to those complaints. The CFPB monitors consumers’...more
On March 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its Consumer Response Annual Report, providing a high-level overview of the 1,657,600 consumer complaints received by the Bureau from January 1...more
In Martinez v. Celtic Bank, the Southern District of New York recently denied a motion for summary judgment finding that a jury could consider an investigation reckless when a furnisher fails to review any records other than...more
A U.S. district court in the Eastern District of New York recently denied a motion for summary judgment filed by a credit card issuer because the plaintiff alleged identity theft and a reasonable factfinder could determine...more
The Consumer Bankers Association has launched a four-part blog series “Facts Matter” to counter what it calls “misinformation conveyed by the CFPB” in its press release about the CFPB’s October 2023 report (Report) under the...more
It is known the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) makes public all the complaints lobbied by consumers against financial companies. Have you looked at it? The volume of these complaints is exploding: nearly 100,000...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to the credit card industry. As evidenced by the timeline, federal regulators (primarily the CFPB) are beginning to renew their focus on credit...more
On November 16, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) released its Fall 2022 Supervisory Highlights. The 32-page report discusses the Bureau’s key examination findings in the areas of auto servicing,...more
The CFPB has released the Fall 2022 edition of its Supervisory Highlights. The report discusses the Bureau’s examinations in the areas of auto servicing, consumer reporting, credit card account management, debt collection,...more
Please join Consumer Financial Services Partner Dave Gettings and his fellow Partner Ethan Ostroff as they discuss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s increasingly active interest in credit reporting, including a...more
On May 25, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on its blog that it had sent letters to the chief executive officers of six major credit card issuers seeking information on their practice of withholding...more
The CFPB has sent letters to the chief executive officers of five major credit card issuers regarding their companies’ payment furnishing practices....more
On May 2, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published its spring 2022 Supervisory Highlights report. As discussed in more detail below, the report addresses observations made in examinations...more
On May 2, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its Supervisory Highlights report on legal violations discovered during examinations in the second half of 2021....more
The CFPB has released the Spring 2022 edition of its Supervisory Highlights. The report discusses the Bureau’s examinations in the areas of auto servicing, consumer reporting, credit card account management, debt collection,...more
We thank you for reading our Top 10 and listening to our CFPB Bites of the Month webinars over the past two years. We are pleased to continue the series in 2022. In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for...more
The CFPB has issued a report titled “Payment Amount Furnishing & Consumer Reporting” that highlights changes since 2012 in the furnishing of actual payment data to consumer reporting agencies. ...more
The pursuit of examinations and enforcement actions by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has created new challenges for entities that provide consumer financial products and services. Given the CFPB’s broad...more
Where do we go from here? As we mark another milestone in regulatory reform with the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, it strikes us that although most studies required to be undertaken by the Act...more
On July 22, 2015, the Department of Defense (DOD) published sweeping changes to its rules that implement the Military Lending Act (MLA). The amended rules significantly expand the scope of the MLA provisions by covering both...more