News & Analysis as of

Legislative Committees Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Ballard Spahr LLP

Senator Graham introduces CRA resolution to overturn CFPB payday loan rule; Mulvaney to testify on April 11 to House Financial...

Ballard Spahr LLP on

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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Bipartisan group of lawmakers introduce CRA resolution to override CFPB payday loan rule

Ballard Spahr LLP on

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act to override the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule. House members sponsoring the bill consist...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House Appropriations Bill Seeks CFPB Reforms

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government will mark up its draft fiscal year 2018 appropriations bill. The draft bill contains multiple provisions to reform the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House subcommittee to hold hearing tomorrow on CFPB’s constitutionality

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Financial Services has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow entitled “The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection’s Unconstitutional Design.” The memo...more

Polsinelli

2017 OCC Bank Supervision Plan, House Committee Passes Dodd-Frank Reform

Polsinelli on

OCC Releases 2017 Bank Supervision Plan - The OCC’s Committee on Bank Supervision (CBS) yesterday published its Fiscal Year 2017 Bank Supervision Operating Plan and announced the following five oversight objectives...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Bi-partisan Congressmen seek arbitration safe harbor allowing class action waivers

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Republican Congressman Randy Neugebauer, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, and Democratic Congressman W. Lacy Clay, the Subcommittee’s Ranking...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Text of Dodd-Frank replacement bill released

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Last month, Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, released a summary of “The Financial CHOICE Act,” a bill to replace the Dodd-Frank Act. The summary indicated that the...more

Polsinelli

House GOP Presents Dodd-Frank Substitute

Polsinelli on

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) yesterday released his legislative plan to repeal and replace the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which passed a Democrat-led...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House appropriations bill amendment would delay enforcement of CFPB payday loan rule

Ballard Spahr LLP on

According to a Politico report, the House Appropriations Committee has advanced a bipartisan amendment to the FY17 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill that would block the CFPB from enforcing a rule...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Congressman Hensarling’s Dodd-Frank replacement bill to include CFPB reforms

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee Chairman, released a summary of a bill to replace the Dodd-Frank Act.  The bill is entitled “The Financial CHOICE Act,” with “CHOICE”...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House FY 2017 appropriations bill would curb CFPB authority, require another arbitration study

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill approved last week by the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee includes the following provisions intended...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House Financial Services Committee Scrutinizes Basis of Proposed CFPB Arbitration Rule

Ballard Spahr LLP on

On Wednesday May 18, 2016, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit held a hearing entitled “Examining the CFPB’s Proposed Rulemaking on Arbitration: Is it in the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House to hold May 18 hearing on CFPB’s proposed arbitration rule

Ballard Spahr LLP on

On May 18, 2016, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit will hold a hearing entitled “Examining the CFPB’s Proposed Rulemaking on Arbitration: Is it in the Public...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Lawmaker seeks information on CFPB’s role in regulating online lending to small businesses

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, ranking Democratic member on the House Small Business Committee, has sent a letter to Director Cordray and Mary Jo White, SEC Chair, seeking information about the roles of the CFPB and SEC in...more

Baker Donelson

Senator Shelby Speaks to Baker Donelson; Releases Financial Regulatory Proposal

Baker Donelson on

U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, last week released the text of the discussion draft of "The Financial Regulatory Improvement Act...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Senator Crapo seeks information on CFPB’s regulatory streamlining efforts

Ballard Spahr LLP on

In our blog post yesterday about the CFPB’s final rule allowing an alternative online delivery method for annual privacy notices, we commented that the CFPB has made limited progress on its regulatory streamlining initiative...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

House to hold Sept. 10 hearing on credit reporting

Ballard Spahr LLP on

On Wednesday, September 10, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing entitled “An Overview of the Credit Reporting System.” The scheduled witnesses are...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CFPB to Assume a Larger Role in Virtual Currency Initiatives

On June 26, 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report, entitled “Virtual Currencies: Emerging Regulatory, Law Enforcement, and Consumer Protection Challenges.” The report, delivered earlier to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

OIG finds flaws in approval process used for CFPB headquarters renovation

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The ballooning cost estimates for renovating the CFPB’s Washington, D.C. headquarters was the subject of verbal sparring between Director Cordray and Republican Congressmen during Director Cordray’s most recent appearance...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

GAO: Virtual Currencies—Emerging Regulatory, Law Enforcement and Consumer Protection Challenges

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released on June 26 its long-awaited report on virtual currencies undertaken at the request of Senator Tom Carper, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security &...more

20 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide