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The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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Mock Jury Exercises: Enhancing Litigation Strategy in Consumer Financial Services Cases — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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On May 12, the CFPB terminated a consent order against a credit financing arm of a large motor vehicle company for violations related to the CFPA and FCRA. ...more
The CFPB recently dropped two more lawsuits it brought under the Chopra administration—one involving a student loan securitization trust and the other regarding a subprime auto finance company. Both lawsuits included...more
We anticipate that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will continue to closely monitor the advertising practices of auto lenders and servicers as well as the practices around add-on products....more
We are pleased to share our annual review of regulatory and legal developments in the consumer financial services industry. With active federal and state legislatures, consumer financial services providers faced a challenging...more
As discussed here, in February 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) launched the auto finance data pilot and issued nine market monitoring orders to three banks, three finance companies, and three...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to the auto finance industry....more
In this episode, Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso from Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services Practice Group are joined by Chris Carlson, a partner in the Regulatory Investigations Strategy and Enforcement...more
In late 2024, the Massachusetts Division of Banks (the “Division”) announced consent orders with four auto finance companies resolving allegations of improper repossession of motor vehicles....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
On July 9, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it entered into a consent order with a national bank, resolving allegations related to the bank’s auto lending practices....more
Welcome to the Auto Loan Origination and Servicing chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review. Looking Ahead to 2024 - We anticipate that the CFPB will continue its attempts to combat...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the December 2023 webinar....more
On November 20, 2023, the CFPB imposed a $60 million penalty on an indirect auto lender for allegedly hindering borrowers from cancelling product bundles, elevating their monthly car loan payments. The Company is also alleged...more
On July 26, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a Supervisory Highlights report covering findings from its examinations completed between July 2022 and March 2023 (the Report), which found,...more
On August 2, 2023, the CFPB announced that it had filed a complaint against a Georgia-based auto-loan servicer alleging “unfair acts and practices in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 (CFPA), 12...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the March 2023 webinar....more
On February 23, the CFPB issued a consent order penalizing an auto finance company for allegedly violating the financial rights of military families and other consumers in providing auto title loans. The CFPB found that the...more
On February 23, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it entered into a consent order with an auto lender based in Georgia....more
On February 23, the CFPB sent market-monitoring orders to nine large auto lenders representing a cross-section of the auto finance market asking for information on their lending portfolios. Data collected from the responses...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the January 18, 2023, webinar. Bite # 8: The CFPB Publishes Civil Penalty Inflation Adjustments Rule in Federal Register - ...more
On January 4, the CFPB and the New York State Office of the Attorney General filed a complaint against a prominent subprime auto lender in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges that the auto lender...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to the auto finance industry. So, what happened in 2022?...more
On May 2, the CFPB published a blog post demonstrating its commitment to “a fair, transparent, and competitive auto lending market” by calling attention to add-on products for which auto dealers and finance companies “often...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") announced in a press release issued in conjunction with the release of its latest Supervisory Highlights that it is concerned that financial institutions and other companies...more
On February 28, the CFPB issued Bulletin 2022-4 regarding repossession of vehicles, and the potential for violations of the Dodd-Frank Act’s prohibition on engaging in unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAPs)...more