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Judge Denies Joint Motion to Vacate CFPB Settlement with a Chicago-Based Non-Bank Lender

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An Illinois federal district court judge presiding over a revived redlining case denied a joint motion to vacate a 2024 voluntary settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and a Chicago-based non-bank...more

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CFPB, DoJ take action in redlining cases

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The CFPB has taken action against the Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp. (DKMC) based on allegations of discriminatory lending activities that, according to the CFPB, discouraged homebuyers from applying to the company for home...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (December 3, 2024)

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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

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CFPB Releases Study on Differential Treatment of Black and White Small Business Owners Seeking Loans

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On November 13, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a pilot study titled “Matched-Pair Testing in Small Business Lending Markets” highlighting what the CFPB believes were two statistically...more

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CFPB Reaches Settlement with Townstone Financial, Inc.

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In a significant development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) has finally reached a settlement with Townstone Financial, Inc. (Townstone) in the first redlining case brought against a nonbank...more

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DOJ and CFPB Announce Landmark Redlining Settlement With Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

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On October 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they reached a settlement with Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation (Fairway). This settlement...more

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Redlining Isn’t What it Used To Be

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In a recent podcast, Len and Dean discuss the June 10 article "Manufacturing Fair Lending" from National Mortgage Professional, which delves into the "Modern Theory of Redlining" introduced by bank regulators after AG...more

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2023 Year in Review: Auto Loan Origination and Servicing

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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

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The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 10, December 2023

In this final edition of the year, we cover the following issues of import for educational institutions: - CFPB scrutiny of college-sponsored financial products; - Changes ahead for Title IV program participants and...more

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At Fair Lending Conference, DOJ Officials Discuss the “Combatting Redlining Initiative”: Progress Made and the Road Ahead

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Last week, the annual Community Reinvestment Act & Fair Lending Colloquium took place in Austin, Texas. Two officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) discussed in detail the “Combatting Redlining Initiative” led by...more

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DOJ Redlining Consent Order With Ameris Bank

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Recently the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a proposed consent order with Ameris Bank to resolve allegations of redlining from 2016 through 2021 in majority Black and Hispanic areas in the Bank’s Jacksonville,...more

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DOJ Settles Redlining Claims in Rhode Island

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement agreement with Washington Trust Company, of Westerly (WTC) to resolve claims that WTC redlined majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Rhode Island....more

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DOJ Announces Two More Multi-Million Dollar Redlining Settlements, States Two Dozen More Active Investigations Underway

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In the last three weeks, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached two more settlements with lenders under its Combatting Redlining Initiative, which began in October 2021. On September 27, the DOJ announced that...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - July 2023 - Freedom, Independence, and Celebration From the CFPB

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the July 2023 webinar. Bite 10: Public Inquiry Launched into Credit Card and Loan Products for Healthcare Costs - On July 7,...more

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CFPB files brief with Seventh Circuit in appeal from district court ruling In Townstone Mortgage that ECOA only applies to...

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The CFPB has filed its opening brief in its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from the district court’s decision in the CFPB’s enforcement action against Townstone Mortgage (Townstone).  In the case,...more

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CFPB Appeals District Court’s Dismissal of Nonbank Redlining Action

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On April 3, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a notice to appeal a district court’s decision to dismiss its complaint against Townstone Finance, Inc. (Townstone), a nonbank mortgage lender, and its...more

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CFPB pushes the ECOA coverage envelope again

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The CFPB has filed a Statement of Interest in a case pending before a Florida federal district court in which the plaintiffs allege that the defendant engaged in discriminatory targeting in violation of the Equal Credit...more

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CFPB Continues to Press for Expanded Definition of Credit Transaction Under ECOA by Interjecting its Position in Pending Private...

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On April 14, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) submitted a statement of interest to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida arguing that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act’s (ECOA) prohibition...more

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DOJ, CFPB: Lenders that rely on discriminatory appraisals violate the FHA and ECOA

On March 13, the DOJ and CFPB filed a statement of interest saying that a “lender violates both the [Fair Housing Act (FHA)] and ECOA if it relies on an appraisal that it knows or should know to be discriminatory.” ...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - March 2023 - Beware the Ides of March and the CFPB

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior month covered during the March 2023 webinar....more

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Court Dismisses CFPB’s ECOA Action Alleging Discrimination Against Prospective Applicants Against Nonbank Lender

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On February 3, 2023, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted Defendants Townstone Financial, Inc., a mortgage broker/lender, and Barry Sturner’s, Townstone’s owner, motion to dismiss the...more

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District Court Dismisses CFPB’s Redlining Case Against Townstone Financial

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A&B ABstract: On Friday, in the CFPB v. Townstone Financial fair lending case, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed with prejudice the complaint filed by the Consumer Financial Protection...more

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CFPB and DOJ Order Mortgage Company to Pay Over $22 Million for Advertising and Marketing Discrimination

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​​​​​​​On July 27, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint and proposed consent order in a federal district court alleging that a mortgage company...more

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Potential Bias in AI Consumer Decision Tools Eyed by FTC, CFPB

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Potential discrimination and bias resulting from consumer tools based on artificial intelligence and automated data will be an enforcement focus of regulators this year, Jenner & Block attorneys predict. Accuracy and...more

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Navigating the Minefields When Offering a Credit Customer the "Lowest Rate"

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Every day, financing providers offer financing to customers. Sometimes they encourage a customer to apply for credit with the dealer by saying that they can offer the customer the best financing deal. Such a claim got a Ford...more

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