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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2022 Annual Review

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to the auto finance industry. So, what happened in 2022?...more

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CFPB Uses UDAAP Oversight Authority to Focus on Digital Marketers

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Continuing a recent trend, the CFPB has asserted that its oversight authority regarding unfair, deceptive, and abusive practices (UDAAP) to assert that certain digital marketers, including what it refers to as “Big Tech,”...more

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Fintech Legal Report - August 2022

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CFPB Warns Firms on Information Security Weaknesses - On August 11, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a circular confirming that financial companies can violate consumer financial protection...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Circular: Safeguard Consumer Data or Face Liability

On August 11, the CFPB published a circular clarifying liability under consumer financial protection law for bank and nonbank financial companies that fail to safeguard consumer data. The circular describes how firms may be...more

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The CFPB Expands Its UDAAP Authority Further Into Data Security Issues

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Continuing a trend it has been pursuing, the CFPB on Thursday used a non-rulemaking circular (Consumer Financial Protection Circular 2022-04) to state that its UDAAP authority extends its enforcement authority to situations...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Parallel Universe or Coincidence: The CFPB’s New Data Consumer Protection Principles’ Relationship to GDPR

On October 18, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) outlined nine non-binding Consumer Protection Principles (the Principles) for the access and sharing of consumer information between third-party companies....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

RFI on Consumer Data Sharing Shows CFPB Interest in Data Aggregators

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or the “Bureau”) has recently expressed interest in how consumer financial information aggregators and financial services companies interact to share and protect financial data...more

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The CFPB and Data Security Enforcement

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its intention to act as a data security regulator by releasing its first unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) enforcement action for allegedly...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financial Services Report, Summer 2016

BELTWAY - Every Last Penny Counts - Five federal banking agencies issued a Supervisory Bulletin titled “Interagency Guidance Regarding Deposit Reconciliation Practices” (the “Guidance”). The Guidance outlines...more

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The CFPB Takes First Enforcement Action Related to Data Security Practices

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB ) has taken its first UDAAP action against a consumer financial service provider related to data security practices. Since its launch in December 2009, Dwolla, Inc. ("Dwolla"),...more

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CFPB Steps Up Scrutiny of FinTech Companies

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On March 7, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it will begin collecting complaints from consumers about online marketplace lenders, signaling its intention to increasingly regulate the...more

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ICYMI: Financial Services Risk Summit

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On March 3, 2016, the BakerHostetler Financial Services industry team held its inaugural Financial Services Risk Summit. The speakers and panels addressed several key areas affecting the financial services sector: regulatory...more

K&L Gates LLP

Proactive Protection of Consumers or Premature Penalty? Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Bucks the Trend in Data Security...

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Data breaches and cybersecurity attacks appear to be growing in frequency. Despite the increase in the number of such attacks, plaintiffs have found it difficult to establish a legal foothold for data breach claims, as...more

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A New Cyber Regulator on the Beat: The CFPB Issues its First Cybersecurity Order and Fine

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On March 2, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) instituted its first data security enforcement action, in the form of a consent order against online payment platform Dwolla, Inc....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB Jumps Into Cyber Enforcement Pool

In a much anticipated move, on March 2, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) entered the cybersecurity foray with its first enforcement action against Dwolla, Inc., an online payment processing start-up. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CFPB Expands UDAAP Jurisdiction in First Foray into Data Security Enforcement

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it has entered into a consent order with online payment platform Dwolla Inc., alleging that Dwolla made false representations to consumers relating to its data...more

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The CFPB Joins Privacy and Security Enforcement Arena With Action Against Dwolla

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on March 2, 2016, that it had entered into a consent order with online payment platform Dwolla to resolve the CFPB’s claims regarding statements made by Dwolla about...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB brings its first data security enforcement action

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Last August, we blogged about a Third Circuit decision that held the FTC can regulate cybersecurity policies and procedures as “unfair” acts or practices under Section 5 of the FTC Act. In our blog post, we commented that...more

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CFPB Initiates Its First Data Security Enforcement Action

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced its first data security enforcement action. Since the 1990s, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has primarily taken on the role as the de facto federal regulator...more

Carlton Fields

CFPB Enters First Enforcement Order Related to Data Security

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On March 2, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) brought its first enforcement order related to data security. The order, against online payment platform service provider Dwolla, Inc. (Dwolla),...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Financial Services Report, Fall 2015

BELTWAY - Straight Out of the Seventh Circuit The Seventh Circuit recently affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the SEC cannot be sued in district court to stop it from bringing an administrative action. Bebo v. SEC, No....more

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