The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has released its Spring 2016 rulemaking agenda. The agenda sets the following timetables for key rulemaking initiatives:
Arbitration. The Spring 2016 agenda does not...more
5/27/2016
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TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (TRID)
The CFPB has issued its May 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about credit reporting and complaints from consumers in New Mexico and the Albuquerque metro area. The CFPB began taking complaints about credit...more
5/26/2016
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The CFPB has published a notice in the Federal Register indicating that it will hold a meeting of its Consumer Advisory Board on June 9, 2016 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The topics to be discussed at the meeting are “an auto...more
The CFPB has released its Spring 2016 rulemaking agenda. The agenda sets the following timetables for key rulemaking initiatives:
Arbitration. The Spring 2016 agenda does not reflect the CFPB’s release of its proposed...more
5/23/2016
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Student Loans ,
TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (TRID)
The CFPB has announced that it will hold a field hearing on small dollar lending in Kansas City, Missouri on June 2, 2016. We anticipate the field hearing to coincide with the CFPB’s release of its proposed rule which is...more
Two Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee, Randy Neugebauer and Mick Mulvaney, have sent a letter to Director Cordray asking him to convene a forum or roundtable of state and tribal officials before the...more
Director Cordray is scheduled to appear before the Senate Banking Committee on April 7, 2016 for a hearing entitled “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress.” (The CFPB’s most recent...more
The CFPB has issued its March 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about debt collection and complaints from Florida consumers. The CFPB began taking complaints about debt collection in July 2013. General...more
To the dismay of many consumer advocates, it has been reported that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and Florida Congresswoman Deborah Wasserman Schultz is supporting a bill (H.R. 4018) that would limit the authority...more
According to Politico, “sources familiar with the discussions” have indicated that the CFPB will not issue a proposed rule for payday (and other small-dollar, high-rate) loans until later this Spring. In April 2015, the CFPB...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 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
The CFPB has issued a new “snapshot of servicemember complaints.” The report states that as of November 2015, the CFPB had received about 2,500 complaints from servicemembers, veterans and their dependents about high-cost...more
The CFPB released its Fall 2015 rulemaking agenda last Friday. The agenda sets the following timetables for key rulemaking initiatives: Arbitration. The Fall 2015 agenda gives a December 2015 date for further prerule...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
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The CFPB has announced that it will hold a field hearing about arbitration in Denver, Colorado on October 7, 2015 and has asked Alan Kaplinsky, Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services Group, to...more
9/25/2015
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The CFPB has issued its September 2015 complaint report, the third in its new series of monthly complaint reports. The new report spotlights mortgage complaints and complaints from consumers in the Denver, Colorado metro...more
9/23/2015
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The CFPB has filed a complaint in federal district court in New York against a group of commonly-controlled companies for allegedly engaging in unlawful conduct in connection with making payday loans over the Internet. With...more
8/6/2015
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The Department of Defense (DoD) dramatically expanded the scope of the Military Lending Act (MLA) on July 22, 2015, publishing its Final Rule amending the MLA’s implementing regulation. The DoD consulted with the CFPB in...more
7/28/2015
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Briefing has now been completed in CFPB v. Great Plains Lending, LLC, et al., the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in which three tribally-affiliated payday lenders are challenging the CFPB’s...more
In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Senator David Vitter questioned “the adequacy and thoroughness of the CFPB’s analysis of small business impacts” in connection with its payday lending rulemaking...more
A new report prepared by Charles River Associates for the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) found that the CFPB’s contemplated proposals for payday (and other small-dollar, high-rate) loans would cut...more
Six Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee, including Chairman Jeb Hensarling, have sent identical letters to the CFPB, OCC, Fed and NCUA asking each agency to “publicly disclaim [its] past, present, and...more
The leaders of four liberal and minority Congressional caucuses have written to Director Cordray to urge the CFPB to adopt “strong protections” for payday loans. The letter was signed by the co-chairs of the Congressional...more
Isaac Boltansky of Compass Point has issued an estimated timeline for the CFPB’s payday loan rulemaking that includes a July 2015 expected date for the CFPB’s release of a proposed rule. Mr. Boltansky estimates that the CFPB...more