Welcome to the “Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review.
As Goodwin predicted in our previous year in review, the enforcement and...more
3/17/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Credit Repair Services ,
Credit Reports ,
Debt Collection ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
FDIC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
FinTech ,
Mortgage Servicing Rules ,
Peer-to-Peer ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
State Attorneys General ,
Trump Administration
In 2024, Goodwin tracked four public enforcement actions related to credit reporting or credit repair services, consistent with the four actions tracked in 2023. Between 2017 and 2024, there were an average of four actions...more
Welcome to the Credit Reporting chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review.
Looking Ahead to 2024 -
The CFPB’s announcement of a proposed rulemaking to remove medical bills from...more
2/15/2024
/ Annual Reports ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA) ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Credit Repair Services ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Credit Reports ,
ECOA ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
FDCPA ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Medical Bills ,
Medical Debt
2022 saw a flurry of regulatory activity by federal enforcement agencies — most notably, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB, or Bureau) — as the industry began to experience the full effects of the change in...more
2/22/2023
/ Automotive Loans ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Credit Cards ,
Credit Reports ,
Debt Collection ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Mortgages ,
Payday Loans ,
Prepaid Payment Products ,
Privacy Laws ,
Student Loans
[co-authors: Amelie Hopkins, and Collin Grier]
The year 2021 started with the hope of COVID-19 vaccines and a return to (relative) normalcy, only to conclude with new variants that presented new challenges and extended...more
2/23/2022
/ AMG Capital Management LLC v FTC ,
Automotive Loans ,
Banking Sector ,
Borrowers ,
Collins v Yellin ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Protection Act ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Credit Reports ,
Creditors ,
Debit and Credit Card Transactions ,
Debt Collection ,
Debtors ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FinTech ,
Lenders ,
Loan Servicing ,
Mortgage Loan Originators ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Payday Loans ,
Prepaid Payment Products ,
SCOTUS ,
Settlement ,
Small Dollar Lenders ,
Student Loans ,
TCPA ,
TransUnion LLC v Ramirez