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On August 12, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a prominent consumer advocacy group, petitioned the CFPB to open rulemaking under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) to expand the definition of “credit” to include...more
On July 26, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its Summer 2023 Supervisory Highlights describing key findings and violations identified during examinations conducted between July 2022 and March 2023....more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to small-dollar lending. So, what happened in 2022?...more
On June 17, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra published a blog post summarizing the Bureau’s new efforts to more clearly communicate its expectations to the public, which would ultimately bolster consumer protection overall....more
Welcome to the Financial Services Report, holiday style! Banks and non-banks alike started early this year with additions and changes to their regulator stockings. The Senate confirmed Rohit Chopra as the new CFPB Director....more
Just a little over a year ago, I was sworn in as a member of the newly created Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law, along with my four fellow taskforce members. The taskforce was the brainchild of Consumer Financial...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its long-awaited two-volume Taskforce Report on Consumer Financial Law (the Report) as expected last week, following a yearlong effort. While advisory in nature, it is...more
ACI’s Residential Mortgage Forum is a premier gathering of leading servicers, lenders, external counsel, and regulators engaging in dialogue on how to navigate the very complex residential mortgage enforcement and litigation...more
In May 2017, we blogged about press reports that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) had accepted a request from Senator Patrick Toomey for a determination concerning whether the CFPB Bulletin 2013-02, titled “Indirect...more
The CFPB has issued a new report, “Data Point: Becoming Credit Visible,” that discusses how consumers transitioned out of “credit invisibility” and how such transitions differed across consumers of different ages and across...more