Politico has reported that the CFPB is not expected to issue a final prepaid card rule until this May or June “according to two sources familiar with the talks.” In November 2014, the CFPB issued a proposed rule for prepaid...more
The CFPB is among the federal agencies participating in a Financial Data Summit hosted by the Data Coalition to be held on March 29, 2016 in Washington, D.C. Linda Powell, the CFPB’s Chief Data Officer, will be on a panel...more
The CFPB will hold a meeting of its Credit Union Advisory Council on March 24, 2016 in Washington, D.C. According to the meeting agenda, one session will be a discussion of the CFPB’s strategic outlook and the other session...more
The CFPB has issued its February 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about prepaid cards and complaints from consumers in Texas and the Houston metro area. The CFPB began taking complaints about prepaid cards in...more
A new blog post by Gary Stein, CFPB Deposits Market Program Manager, suggests four ways consumers can avoid overdraft and NSF fees. The post appears to have been prompted by the release of 2015 data by the Federal Financial...more
The CFPB recently issued an advisory for older consumers about asset recovery companies that target older consumers who are past victims of fraud, such as bogus timeshare investments and in-home business opportunities. The...more
In an effort to publicize its online complaint system and bring in more complaints, the CFPB is now soliciting complaints through Internet advertising. When browsing the Internet recently, we came across the following...more
According to Politico, David Silberman will replace Meredith Fuchs as the CFPB’s acting Deputy Director beginning next week. Mr. Silberman has been serving as the CFPB’s Associate Director for research, markets, and...more
Senator Sherrod Brown, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, has sent a letter to President Obama that asks the President to prioritize funding in his FY 2017 budget proposal for programs in Title XII of the...more
A blog post about payday lending, “Reframing the Debate about Payday Lending,” posted on the New York Fed’s website takes issue with several “elements of the payday lending critique” and argues that more research is needed...more
Financial literacy was the focus of Director Richard Cordray’s remarks last week at the American Bankers Association Annual Convention. He identified three areas where the CFPB is focusing its efforts and where financial...more
The CFPB has issued its eighth Semi-Annual Report to the President and Congress covering the period from April 1, 2015 through September 30, 2015. The 190-page report recycles information from previously-issued CFPB reports...more
The CFPB has published a notice in the Federal Register indicating that it is planning to conduct a “Financial Well-Being National Survey.” In the notice, the CFPB states that through its prior research, it has determined...more
This past Sunday, the NY Times published an article carrying the headline, “Efforts to Rein in Arbitration Come Under Well-Financed Attack.” The “well-financed attack” to which the headlined refers appears to be an...more
Financial literacy was the focus of Director Cordray’s remarks last week at the American Bankers Association Annual Convention. He identified three areas where the CFPB is focusing its efforts and where financial institutions...more
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has issued further criticism of the recent articles on arbitration published in the New York Times. The Chamber’s initial comments focused on the Times’ first article in which Alan Kaplinsky,...more
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has issued strong criticism of the first two articles on arbitration published in the New York Times this past Sunday and earlier this week. (The articles were part of a series of three reports.)...more
A new lawsuit filed by the CFPB in a California federal district court alleges that the defendants, a company and its individual owner, are engaged in a nationwide student financial aid scam. In addition to injunctive relief,...more
11/3/2015
/ Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Financial Aid ,
Financial Institutions ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Redress Payments ,
Regulation P ,
Student Loans ,
UDAAP ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
The CFPB has issued its third Financial Literacy Annual Report to Congress. The report covers the CFPB’s activities to improve consumer financial literacy during the period from June 2014 through September 2015. The report’s...more
The CFPB has issued its October 2015 complaint report, the fourth in its new series of monthly complaint reports. The new report highlights credit card complaints and complaints from consumers in the Chicago, Illinois metro...more
10/29/2015
/ Consumer Complaint System ,
Consumer Financial Products ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Consumer Lenders ,
Credit Cards ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Credit Reports ,
Debt Collection ,
Debt Collectors ,
Financial Institutions ,
Payday Loans
The D.C. federal district court recently ruled that the plaintiffs’ names should be redacted in all documents filed in a lawsuit against the CFPB initiated by the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are a group of businesses and an...more
The CFPB has released a “youth financial education curriculum review tool” for curriculum developers and educators to use to review financial education materials and determine which curricula best suits their students. The...more
The FTC has released the agenda and panelists for the workshop it will be holding on October 30, 2015 in Washington, D.C. on lead generation. According to the agenda, the workshop will include case studies on how lead...more
The CFPB has announced that its Consumer Advisory Board will meet on October 22, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The meeting, at which Director Cordray is scheduled to give opening remarks, will include a discussion of arbitration,...more
Consistent with recent indications from CFPB and Department of Justice officials that more redlining cases would soon be coming, the CFPB and DOJ have announced a proposed consent order with Hudson City Savings Bank to settle...more
10/9/2015
/ Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
ECOA ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgages ,
Race Discrimination ,
Redlining ,
Residential Real Estate Market