Navigating Consumer Protection: The CFPB's Expanding Reach — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Understanding Scope of Practice
Evolving State Supervision: Issues Arising from State Qualification Standards and 'SAFE' Act Licensing, and Coordination with the CFPB
The CFPB confirmed in a recent memo to staff that it is shifting its tone on supervision and enforcement—even as reports circulate about significant staffing cuts and potential structural changes at the agency. ...more
CFPB Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta on April 16, 2025, issued the CFPB's latest staff memo outlining the agency's supervision and enforcement priorities. ...more
Regulatory Developments - Federal Reserve Announces Results From the Review of the Supervision and Regulation of SVB - On April 28, the Federal Reserve released its report analyzing SVB’s failure (Report). The Report...more
On March 3, the CFPB published findings from a voluntary review of the 2015 HMDA Final Rule issued in October 2015, as well as subsequent related amendments that eased certain reporting requirements and permanently raised...more
As 2021 runs in search of what’s new, we realize that the pandemic disruption has continued through 2021. The NMLS Ombudsman Meeting was held virtually and the upcoming American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators...more
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) published the latest policy paper in its series examining the nonbank financial services industry and its supervision. In its press release, CSBS summarized the key findings...more
AARMR and CSBS are hosting a National Mortgage Policy Summit for policymakers, regulators, and the industry on November 13, 2019 in Washington, D.C. ...more
CSBS Publishes New Series: “Reengineering Nonbank Supervision” - In a press release noting, among other things, that “[n]onbank mortgage companies are responsible for two-thirds of annual residential mortgage originations,...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its bank supervision operating plan for fiscal year 2016 on September 25th. The operating plan sets forth the agency’s supervision priorities and objectives as...more
ECON Votes in Favor of the MIF Regulation - On January 27, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee ("ECON") released a press release stating that it had voted in favour of the proposed Regulation on multilateral...more
This will be a busy year at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and that certainly means it will be a busy year for financial institutions as well. In addition to exercising its supervisory and enforcement...more
The American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR), the trade association for regulators responsible for supervising non-depository mortgage companies, held its annual conference last week in Denver....more