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The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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Navigating 2025: Regulatory Shift to the States and the FTC in the Digital Asset Landscape — The Consumer Finance Podcast
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To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week....more
Accusing the Trump Administration of “dismantling” the CFPB, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is calling on city and state officials to fill the void by strengthening consumer protection laws and rules in the city and...more
The Senate Banking, Housing and Affairs Committee (Banking Committee) would eliminate the CFPB’s current funding source, as part of Committee’s Republican version of its part of the massive budget reconciliation bill,...more
Despite massive attempted layoffs and cancellation of third-party vendor contracts, the Trump Administration did not and does not intend to shut down the CFPB, a Justice Department attorney told a federal appeals court on...more
Accusing the CFPB of planning to use its funding mechanism to abolish the agency, the mayor and the city council of Baltimore (the “City of Baltimore”) and the Economic Action Maryland Fund (the “Economic Fund”), a nonprofit...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a focal point for both regulatory oversight and political debate arguably since its inception. Created in 2010 as a response to the financial crisis, the CFPB is still...more
In a dramatic series of events, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) has undergone leadership changes, signaling a significant shift in its regulatory approach. These changes began with the firing of...more
The current and incoming Republican leaders of the House Financial Services Committee have asked financial regulators, including the CFPB, to stop “finalizing partisan rulemaking” over the next several weeks....more
Senate Banking Committee ranking Republican Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. said on December 11 that unlike several other regulators, the CFPB is ignoring his call to pause rulemaking until the Trump Administration takes office....more
In a significant development since our last post, Fiserv’s application for a merchant acquirer limited purpose bank (MALPB) charter has been approved by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance. This approval marks a...more
On November 7, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") issued a proposed rule that would grant it supervisory authority over major nonbank technology companies in the consumer digital payments space....more
American Banker recently reported that the CFPB is planning to substantially increase the size of its staff, particularly its Enforcement Division staff....more
On May 24, the CFPB launched a new office, the Office of Competition and Innovation. The stated purpose of the new office is to promote competition and innovation that benefits consumers in the financial products and services...more
CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger is scheduled to appear before the Senate Banking Committee today, March 10, at hearing entitled “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress.” ...more
The CFPB has issued its Spring 2018 Semi-Annual Report to Congress covering the period October 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018. ...more
On May 7, 2018, at the Practicing Law Institute’s 23rd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute in Chicago, panel members Kristen Donoghue, the CFPB’s top enforcement official, and Allison Brown, from the Bureau’s Office...more
In an email to CFPB staff, Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s designee as CFPB Acting Director, has indicated that he plans to make changes to the CFPB’s organizational structure to best enable the CFPB to fulfill its...more