Predictions regarding the 2023 CRA Rule and Section 1071 and how to prepare for expected developments
The Regulatory Situation After the Trump Executive Orders Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
UDAAP and Fair Lending Developments: 2024 Year-in-Review and 2025 Predictions — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Coming Perfect Storm
1071 Rule Status — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: An Even Deeper Dive into the CFPB’s Final Dodd-Frank Section 1071 Rule on Small Business Data Collection
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Final Section 1071 Rule on Small Business Data Collection: What You Need to Know, Part I
The huge budget bill signed by President Trump on July 4 does not include a proposal from Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Republicans to delay implementation of the Section 1071 rule for ten years, but the...more
The CFPB has continued to announce additional procedural, rulemaking and administrative changes, with the latest being three postings to the Federal Register on June 18, 2025: 1) a final rule rescinding the Procedure Relating...more
On May 28, the CFPB filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, requesting to stay proceedings in a case involving the Small Business Lending Rule. The CFPB made this request to undertake...more
Len & Dean examine how the 2023 CRA rule and Section 1071 could impose unrealistic standards on banks through rigid assessment areas, urging the industry to engage in the rulemaking process and prepare for regulatory changes...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) recently announced that it plans to revisit – and potentially revise – its controversial small business data collection rule implementing Section 1071 of the...more
As we have reported previously, including here, here, and here, the CFPB’s section 1071 small business loan data collection and reporting rule is facing court challenges. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has...more
Last week, the CFPB issued its Semi-Annual Report to Congress covering the period beginning October 1, 2022 and ending March 31, 2023. ...more