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Mid-Year 2025 Financial Services Litigation Update

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Litigation against banks and other financial services firms is always evolving. This mid-year 2025 update discusses trends from recent case filings and decisions and highlights the importance of awareness of new legal...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Fifth Circuit affirms lower court’s decision holding that a credit reporting agency did not violate the FCRA by not investigating...

On June 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, a credit reporting agency, and dismissing all claims brought by the...more

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EC call for advice to EBA for second benchmarking of national loan enforcements frameworks

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The European Commission (EC) has published a call for advice to the European Banking Authority (EBA) together with a letter from John Berrigan, Directorate-General of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital...more

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Slimmed-Down CFPB to Focus on Bank Oversight, Concrete Consumer Harm

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On April 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sent an internal memorandum to CFPB staff describing its 2025 supervisory and enforcement priorities. Not surprisingly, the memo highlights its intended departure...more

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Connecticut Supreme Court Clarifies Attorney Exemption in Debt Negotiation Enforcement Action

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On April 8, 2025, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in Commonwealth Servicing Group, LLC v. Department of Banking, issued an opinion that only attorneys and law firms are permitted to claim the attorney exemption from the...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

CFPB Announces 2025 Supervision and Enforcement Priorities

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This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a memo to staff outlining its new supervision and enforcement priorities for 2025....more

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What legal actions can the bank take if the customer defaults on a loan in the UAE?

Defaulting on a bank loan in the UAE is regulated by the Commercial Code (federal decree-law No. (50) of 2022) and the Civil Procedure Law (federal decree-law No. (42) of 2022). Further, the Central Bank of UAE issued Loan...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Wisconsin State Court of Appeals rules against bank and upholds state notice requirements in credit card debt case

Recently, the State Court of Appeals of Wisconsin decided an appeal concerning defaulted credit card accounts. The defendant-appellant, an individual who defaulted on two separate credit card accounts, contested the judgments...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB issues consent order against student loan debt collector

On December 9, the CFPB issued a consent order against a debt collector following allegations of unfair and abusive practices regarding its collection of student loan debt allegedly violating the CFPA and the FDCPA. The CFPB...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Summer Regulatory Round-Up | July 2024

The banking regulators have not yet gone out on vacation, as demonstrated by this grab-bag of announcements, speeches, rules and guidance: Acting Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC),...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB Releases Summer 2024 Supervisory Highlights

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The CFPB has released its Summer, 2024 Supervisory Highlights, covering issues ranging from student loan servicing to financial institution supervision of medical providers offering payment products. The report covers the...more

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DFPI Issues 2023 CCFPL Report

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Last week the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation issued a report of its activities under the California Consumer Financial Protection Law.   The California legislature enacted the CCFPL in 2020 for the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New York AG settles with bank over EIPA violations

On April 17, the New York attorney general (AG) announced a settlement with a bank (respondent) to resolve allegations that respondent improperly froze customer accounts and paid out consumer funds to debt collectors, and...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB Order Makes it Clear: Nonbanks Should Prepare for CFPB Supervision

The CFPB recently published a decision and order subjecting a nonbank consumer lender to its supervisory authority based on its determination that the lender may be “engaging, or has engaged, in conduct that poses risks to...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

District Court: Plaintiff has standing but still dismisses FCRA case

On January 19, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey granted a bank’s motion to dismiss an FCRA case. According to the opinion, after plaintiff’s credit report revealed monthly payments towards previously...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Brings String of Enforcement Actions to Round Out 2023

In December, the CFPB brought a series of three separate enforcement actions against several financial services companies alleging a range of violations of federal consumer protections laws....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FDIC Issues Order Against Bank Over Fintech Partnership

On November 21, a Washington-based bank confirmed through a public filing that it entered into a consent order with the FDIC alleging that the bank engaged in unsafe or unsound banking practices, primarily related to products...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Abuse Discovery Practices by the Government

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In this episode of his "Clearly Conspicuous" podcast series, "Abuse Discovery Practices by the Government," consumer protection attorney Anthony DiResta reviews a district court's decision to sanction the Consumer Financial...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

CFPB Seeks to Fundamentally Alter the Credit Reporting Process and Use of Public Data

On Sept. 21, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) officially announced it is considering a rulemaking to address several consumer reporting topics under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Under the process...more

White & Case LLP

Implementation of the Credit Servicers Directive in Germany: A game-changer in the NPL-market

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The Directive (EU) 2021/2167 sets out a harmonized regulatory framework for services in relation to non-performing loans and has to be implemented by Member States by 29 December 2023. In Germany, the draft bill of the Credit...more

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CFPB issues Summer ’23 supervisory highlights

On July 26, the CFPB released its Summer 2023 issue of Supervisory Highlights, which covers enforcement actions in areas such as auto origination, auto servicing, consumer reporting, debt collection, deposits, fair lending,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

All Consuming - Financial Litigation Insights - Issue 2, July 2023

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

Alston & Bird

Consumer Finance State Roundup - June 2023

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The pace of legislative activity from this year’s current session can make it hard to stay abreast of new laws.  The Consumer Finance ABstract’s “Consumer Finance State Roundup” is intended to provide a brief overview of...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 24, 2022

North Carolina Power Outage Points to Homeland Security Long-Documented Threats to US Power Grid - “Moore County blackouts serve as reminder that nation’s electricity infrastructure could be vulnerable targets for domestic...more

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Connecticut Department of Banking Fines Law Firm $100,000 for Collecting Without a License

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On December 1, the Connecticut Department of Banking issued a cease and desist order to the Law Offices of David M. Katz mandating the law firm cease conducting collection activities in the state without a license. The law...more

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