Over the past few years, one of the more noteworthy types of new financial services rules at the state level has been the so-called fair access to banking law. Concerns about ideological debanking have gained political...more
8/15/2025
/ Banking Sector ,
Banks ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Enforcement ,
Fair Access to Credit ,
Federal Reserve ,
Financial Institutions ,
New Legislation ,
OCC ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
State and Local Government ,
State Legislatures
Late last year, we predicted that the Trump administration would bring federal action to target de-banking, and on August 7, 2025, President Trump signed a much-anticipated executive order to address the issue. Banks and...more
In an October 2023 advisory opinion, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) put large banks and credit unions on notice that the use of chatbots and other technologies could increase the risk of violating federal law...more
Late last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released an interpretive rule that provided much-welcome guidance related to the effect of the new Juneteenth National Independence Day on disclosure waiting...more
8/10/2021
/ Banking Sector ,
Biden Administration ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Holidays ,
Interpretive Rule ,
Mortgage Lenders ,
Mortgages ,
TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule (TRID)
On July 31, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a public bulletin intended to provide guidance to covered persons and service providers who take payments from consumers using pay-by-phone services and...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released “policy guidance” on June 27, 2017 related to the effective dates of the 2016 mortgage servicing rule amendments. In response to repeated requests from the mortgage...more
As part of its recent amendments to the mortgage servicing rules in Regulations X and Z, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is fundamentally changing the way mortgage servicers are required to treat successors in...more
8/23/2016
/ Banking Sector ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Loss Mitigation ,
Mortgage Servicers ,
Mortgage Servicing Rules ,
Mortgages ,
Real Estate Market ,
Regulation X ,
Regulation Z ,
Request For Information ,
Successor Interests ,
Webinars