Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Fair Lending Risks at the Checkout Counter — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Countering an Executive Order issued by President Trump and the adoption by the CFPB of its final rule revising Regulation B, the New York Department of Financial Services recently issued an Industry Letter warning the...more
Today’s episode of the Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast features a wide-ranging and timely discussion about one of the most consequential fair lending developments in years: the CFPB’s final rule fundamentally reshaping...more
On May 5, Craig Trainor, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), used the American Bankers Association’s Risk and...more
On May 1, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) issued its final rule substantially revising subpart B of Regulation B, which implements section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more
On May 1, the CFPB finalized a substantially revised Section 1071 rule, which implements the small business lending data collection and reporting requirements under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B, as...more
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a “Dear Colleague” letter to real estate professionals clarifying that sharing crime or school quality information with prospective homebuyers or renters is not a...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection enforcement and regulation. We cover developments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB...more
On April 22, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under Acting Director Russell Vought, issued a significant final rule reshaping the agency’s approach to fair lending enforcement under the Equal Credit...more
The CFPB has finalized its long-anticipated revision to the Section 1071 small business lending data collection rule, published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2026. The final rule (Docket No. CFPB-2025-0040; RIN 3170-AB40)...more
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its final rule revising the 2023 small business lending data collection and reporting rule under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has published a final rule amending Regulation B, the implementing regulation for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), in three significant respects...more
On April 22, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action that could reduce compliance and litigation risk for banks. The CFPB issued its final rule that amends provisions related to disparate impact,...more
On April 22, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published in the Federal Register a final rule amending Regulation B, the regulation implementing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)....more
On April 22, the CFPB finalized amendments to Regulation B, which implements the ECOA (previously covered by InfoBytes here). The rule, effective July 21, finalizes the three principal changes to Regulation B: (i) eliminating...more
For the first time since its enactment and implementation nearly 50 years ago, the CFPB is taking the position that ECOA does not authorize disparate-impact liability. On April 22, 2026, the CFPB published its final rule...more
For those waiting on pins and needles to see how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under new leadership would implement recent presidential directives related to discrimination and the constitutional guarantee...more
On April 22, the CFPB issued a final rule revising Regulation B under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The rule eliminates disparate impact liability from the Bureau’s ECOA enforcement framework, narrows standards...more
On April 22, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule amending Regulation B – the implementing regulation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)....more
On April 18, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized their proposed rule to amend Regulation B, the promulgating rule tied to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The Final Rule did not veer far from the...more
In this special joint episode of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, guest host Taylor Gess joins Chris Willis and Lori Sommerfield to unpack fair lending risks in point-of-sale finance. They explain how...more
On April 22, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued its final rewrite of Subpart A of Regulation B (Reg B) under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), which eliminates disparate impact from...more
Welcome to the second chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2025 Year in Review. In 2025, the mortgage market saw federal enforcement efforts decrease as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)...more
On January 12, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Justice withdrew their October 2023 joint statement regarding the implications of a creditor's consideration of an individual's immigration...more
The current administration has clarified that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act allows creditors to evaluate immigration and citizenship status when it directly relates to credit risk or the creditor’s ability to enforce...more
In this article, we share a timeline of monthly "bites" for the past year applicable to consumers protected by nondiscrimination and military protection laws....more