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CFPB Fines Fintech Installment Lender $15 Million for Alleged Consent Order Violations

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On November 15, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that a nonbank installment lender agreed to settle allegations that it was violating a 2019 consent order. The Company is a publicly traded online...more

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CFPB Issues New Supervisory Highlights Report

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​​​​​​​On July 26, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a Supervisory Highlights report covering findings from its examinations completed between July 2022 and March 2023 (the Report), which found,...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - August 2023 - School Bells Ringing Loud and Clear, Vacation's Over, CFPB is Near

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the August 2023 webinar. Bite 1: CFPB Publishes Report on Employer-Driven Debt - On July 20, 2023, the CFPB published a...more

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CFPB Fall 2022 Supervisory Highlights looks at auto servicing, consumer reporting, credit card account management, debt...

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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

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CFPB Sues Payday Lender for Allegedly Concealing Free Repayment Plans and Withdrawing Borrowers' Funds without Authorization

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HIGHLIGHTS: The CFPB announced that it is filing a lawsuit against a payday lender for allegedly concealing free repayment plans and making unauthorized debit-card withdrawals. With its allegations of unfair, deceptive, and...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (January 24, 2022)

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Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more

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Regulation by Blog or Press Release?

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

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CFPB Files Complaint Against Florida-Based Payday Lender

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On November 5, 2020, the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had filed a complaint against a Florida-based payday lender and its CEO in the Southern District of Florida. The complaint alleges that...more

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All American Check Cashing files reply brief in Fifth Circuit interlocutory appeal

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All American Check Cashing has filed its reply brief in its interlocutory appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from the district court’s ruling upholding the CFPB’s constitutionality....more

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CFPB files opposition brief in Fifth Circuit interlocutory appeal of All American Check Cashing

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The CFPB has filed its opposition brief in the interlocutory appeal of All American Check Cashing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from the district court’s ruling upholding the CFPB’s constitutionality....more

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Fifth amicus brief filed in support of All American Check Cashing

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A fifth amicus brief has been filed in support of All American Check Cashing and the other appellants in their interlocutory appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit of the district court’s ruling upholding...more

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More amicus briefs filed in support of All American Check Cashing

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Three more amicus briefs have been filed in support of All American Check Cashing and the other appellants in their interlocutory appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit of the district court’s ruling...more

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Fifth Circuit agrees to hear challenge to CFPB’s constitutionality

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has agreed to hear an interlocutory appeal challenging the CFPB’s constitutionality requested by the defendants in a lawsuit filed by the CFPB in 2016 that alleges the...more

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Senators urge CFPB not to reconsider payday loan rule

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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

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Update

A degree of uncertainty hangs over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) following the November 2017 resignation of its first director, Richard Cordray. On his last day in office, Cordray appointed his chief of...more

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Federal jury convicts operator of payday lenders sued by CFPB and FTC

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Richard Moseley Sr., the operator of a group of interrelated payday lenders, was convicted by a federal jury on all criminal counts in an indictment filed by the Department of Justice, including violating the Racketeer...more

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CFPB Issues Final Rules on Payday and Vehicle Title Loans—Little Impact for Auto Lenders

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final rule on payday, vehicle title, and certain high-cost installment loans. The new rule is effective in 2019 and imposes stringent underwriting requirements and...more

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NAFCU urges regulatory relief for credit unions in letter to Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin

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On February 28, 2017, B. Dan Berger, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (the “NAFCU“), urged regulatory relief for credit unions in a letter submitted to the...more

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CFPB Enters Consent Order with Seattle-Based Payday Lender

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On December 16, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it entered into a consent order relating to a Seattle-based payday lender and check-cashing company’s allegedly deceptive online...more

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Receiver for payday lenders sued by CFPB files malpractice lawsuit

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The court-appointed receiver for a group of interrelated companies sued by the CFPB in September 2014 for engaging in allegedly unlawful online payday lending activities has filed a malpractice lawsuit against the law firm...more

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CFPB Continues Scrutiny of Payday Loans in Recent Report and Proposed Rule

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Online payday loans can result in an array of "steep, hidden costs" for borrowers, according to the latest payday loan report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The report precedes potential new regulatory...more

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Nutter Bank Report, June 2016

The Nutter Bank Report is a monthly publication of the firm's Banking and Financial Services Group. Headlines 1. Agencies Publish Proposed Rule to Limit Incentive-Based Compensation Arrangements 2. Guidance on New...more

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Payment Processor Hit With CFPB Action

A payment processor and two executives were the subject of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) action, with the Bureau charging that the defendants enabled their clients to make unauthorized withdrawals from...more

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FTC provides 2015 enforcement report to CFPB

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The Federal Trade Commission has provided its annual report to the CFPB covering the FTC’s enforcement activities in 2015 related to compliance with Regulation Z (Truth in Lending), Regulation M (Consumer Leasing), and...more

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CFPB Sues All American Check Cashing

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On May 11, 2016, the CFPB sued All American Check Cashing, Mid-State Finance and their President and owner Michael E. Gray. It alleged that the Defendants engaged in abusive, deceptive, and unfair conduct in making certain...more

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