The Future of Auto Dealership Compliance: A Conversation With Tom Kline — Moving the Metal: The Auto 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
Investigation Tag Team: The FTC and the State of Arizona — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The FTC and Connecticut Join Forces for Action Against Nissan Dealer
The CARS Rule — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
Avoiding Auto Finance Pitfalls Under the FTC's New CARS Rule — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Preventing and Detecting Fraud: How to Protect Your Dealership
Podcast: Buy-Sell Market - Factors to Consider in Transactions of Automotive Dealerships
AFSA Extra Credit Podcast: Auto Remote Sales Compliance
AF COVID-19 Podcast: Online Auto Sales in the Age of COVID-19
AF COVID-19 PODCAST: Auto Dealers & Stay at Home Orders
II-31- The Changing 9 to 5 From 1980 to Today
Polsinelli Podcasts - Removing Caps on Punitive Damages: What is the Impact on Business?
Until the Dodd-Frank Act, the states were at the forefront of consumer credit regulation and enforcement. The arrival of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gave the states, which typically operated within tight...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently delivered its Consumer Response Annual Report for 2024, as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The report includes analyses of...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the June 2025 webinar....more
In a move that could significantly impact the auto retail industry, California has introduced Senate Bill 766, known as the California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act. Introduced by Senator Benjamin Allen (D) on...more
On December 17, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final trade regulation rule, "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees," commonly referred to as the "Junk Fees Rule." We review the significance of the Final Rule...more
A federal District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, Victoria Marie Calvert, awarded a default judgment to the CFPB against USASF, a car loan servicer of loans originated by U.S. Auto Sales Inc., a buy-here,...more
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has set oral arguments for Oct. 7 in the challenge of the Federal Trade Commission’s Combating Auto Retail Scams Rule (“CARS Rule”). The petition, filed on January 5, 2024 by the National...more
Petitioners in the challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Combating Auto Retail Scams Rule (“CARS Rule”) filed their Petitioners’ Brief on March 15, 2004 in support of their petition for review, and a who’s who...more
On January 5, 2024, two trade groups representing auto dealers filed a petition for review challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) new Combating Auto Retail Scams Rule (“CARS Rule”). In the petition, the National...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the December 2023 webinar....more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more
The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a final rule that is squarely aimed at changing the way dealers interact with customers in the financing process. The final rule takes effect on July 30, 2024....more
The FTC finalized a new rule intended to protect consumers buying a new car from unlawful and deceptive sales tactics pursuant to its authority under the Dodd-Frank Act to prescribe rules relating to unfair or deceptive...more
On October 24, the FTC and the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $1.1 million settlement with a group of Wisconsin auto dealers for allegedly charging customers illegal junk fees and unlawfully discriminating...more
For almost two years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has made combating so-called junk fees an agency priority, bringing multiple enforcement actions, undertaking supervisory activity, and collaborating with...more
On Oct. 11, 2023, the White House released a fact sheet describing new and forthcoming actions taken by the Biden administration that continue its focus on so-called “junk fees.” The announcement highlighted efforts between...more
Federal agencies look to expand regulatory reach using sweeping UDAAP and UDAP authority - With active regulatory agendas at several federal agencies and what seems like back-to-back hearings considering legislative...more
Perhaps not as prominent in the national news as another relatively high-profile balloon, in its latest effort to legislate and regulate by enforcement, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), together with New...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •AG Campbell Settles with Massachusetts Auto Dealer over...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made news this year when it announced that it considered discrimination to be illegal as an "unfair" practice, including in situations where fair lending laws do not apply. In March,...more
In late September, we blogged about a lawsuit that the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups filed against the CFPB, challenging the CFPB’s update to its Supervision and Examinations Manual. As updated, the manual now...more
FTC Launches Long-Anticipated Trade Regulation Rulemaking on ‘Commercial Surveillance’ and Data Security. On August 11, the FTC issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), titled “Trade Regulation Rule on...more
As we previously posted on June 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) released a proposed Motor Vehicle Dealers Trade Regulation Rule. This new rule could allow the FTC to regulate dealers exempt from the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a new proposed rule that aims to make the "motor vehicle"-buying process more clear and competitive, and also allow the FTC to recover money when consumers are misled or charged...more