The Current State of the Holder Rule: Friend or Foe? — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Doc Fees Decoded: The Price of Paperwork in Auto Sales — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Driven by Data: Auto Finance Trends Uncovered - Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Shifting Gears: Adapting to Regulatory Changes in Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Dialing In: The TCPA and Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Requiem for the Rules: The Rise and Fall of the Junk Fee and CARS Rules — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
From Federal to Local: CFPB’s Blueprint for State Regulators — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
2024 Year in Review: Key Developments in Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Auto Finance Under the Microscope: Unpacking Landmark FTC and AG Settlements — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
2024 Privacy Trends and Their Impact on Auto Finance – Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Lemon Law Shakeup: Rodriguez vs. FCA US Has Unexpected Result – Moving The Metal Podcast
CFPB's Supervisory Highlights on Auto-Finance and Auto-Servicing — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
CFPB’s Supervisory Highlights on Auto-Finance and Auto-Servicing — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Breaking Granite: Understanding New Amendments to the New Hampshire Retail Installment Sales Act — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Dissecting Oral Arguments in NADA's Challenge to the CARS Rule — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Loans, Retail Installment Contracts, and Refinancing Programs — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The CFPB’s Report on Negative Equity in Auto Lending - Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
In this episode, hosts Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso delve into the latest TransUnion report on credit industry insights for the fourth quarter of 2024. With auto finance trends revealing rising loan-to-value ratios,...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was medical debt collection....more
In this special joint episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Moving the Metal, Chris Willis teams up with Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso, hosts of the Moving the Metal podcast, to discuss the CFPB’s recent supervisory...more
On October 7, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published the Fall edition of its Supervisory Highlights, focusing on examinations of the auto-finance market completed between November 1, 2023, and...more
On July 9, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a consent order against a nationally chartered bank that, among other things, includes a number of allegations related to the bank's policies regarding...more
CFPB Issue Spotlight Analyzes “Artificial Intelligence” Chatbots in Banking - "Poorly deployed chatbots can impede customers from resolving problems." Why this is important: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the March 2023 webinar....more
2022 saw a flurry of regulatory activity by federal enforcement agencies — most notably, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB, or Bureau) — as the industry began to experience the full effects of the change in...more
In a September 28, 2022 blog post, the CFPB examined the potential impact of rising vehicle prices on consumers with deep subprime credit scores, concluding that they are particularly likely to be financially vulnerable....more
In a blog post on Monday, the CFPB advised that it is concerned about the impact of rising car prices on consumer’s financial health, particularly consumers with sub-prime or near prime credit scores. The most recent...more
On September 19, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a blog post, exploring the potential relationship between rising car prices and changes in auto loan performance. The CFPB found that the rate of...more
Regulatory Announcements- FTC Commissioner Phillips Plans to Leave the Agency in the Fall, Per Media Reports. On August 8, several media outlets reported that FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips informed his staff through a memo...more
Alvaro Bedoya Sworn in as FTC Commissioner Following Senate Confirmation. On May 16, Alvaro Bedoya was sworn in as FTC Commissioner. The U.S. Senate confirmed Bedoya to the FTC’s open Commissioner on May 11. ...more
[co-authors: Amelie Hopkins, and Collin Grier] The year 2021 started with the hope of COVID-19 vaccines and a return to (relative) normalcy, only to conclude with new variants that presented new challenges and extended...more
Millions of Consumers have Cut Their Debts, So Why are Financial Experts Sounding Alarm - "And with stimulus payments a thing of the past and other unusual financial stabilization programs unwinding, the alerts are going...more
The CFPB has issued “Supervisory Highlights COVID-19 Prioritized Assessments Special Edition.” The report indicates that in May 2020, the Bureau rescheduled about half of its planned examinations and instead conducted...more
Some plaintiffs' lawyers operate on the theory that if you fling enough bovine byproduct against the barn wall, some of it will stick. They include in their complaints every possible claim, regardless of how tenuously those...more
In Hindle v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, 2018 WL 6033484 (D. Mass. Nov. 16, 2018), Plaintiffs alleged that they wanted to own their Prius rather than continue to lease it in order to lower their monthly payments....more
The Eastern District of Wisconsin recently confirmed that the permissible purpose for obtaining a consumer credit report under FCRA is broad. In Long v. Bergstrom Victory Lane, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171750 (E. D. Wisc....more
The consumer financial services industry began 2017 with optimism, as well as considerable uncertainty with the new Administration in the White House, knowing only that the year would bring change. And change it did bring...more
In May 2017, we blogged about press reports that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) had accepted a request from Senator Patrick Toomey for a determination concerning whether the CFPB Bulletin 2013-02, titled “Indirect...more
The CFPB's critics are getting louder, arbitration clauses are spending some time on the chopping block and credit reporting continues to garner more and more attention. These are all things we can expect to focus on this...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) exercise of its sweeping authority to prohibit unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices (UDAAP) continues to command the attention of financial institutions and...more
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted as a measure to promote financial stability and protection for consumers through increased regulation of nearly every aspect of the consumer finance...more
Yesterday, the CFPB announced a consent order with First Investors Financial Services Group, Inc., an auto finance company that both makes loans to consumers and purchases retail installment sale contracts from auto dealers....more