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CFPB Reviewing Automobile Financing Larger Participant Rule

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is inviting comment on whether the 2015 larger participant rule for automobile financing remains the right measure of market significance. Comments are due September 22, 2025....more

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UK FCA findings on digital design of loan processes in customers' online journeys

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings from its review on digital design in customers' online journeys when accessing consumer credit, with related press release, identifying good practices and...more

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CFPB Seeks Comments on Increased Larger Market Participant Thresholds in 4 Key Markets

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The CFPB published four advanced notices for proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register on Aug. 8, 2025. Each notice seeks comment from experts within the automobile financing, international money transfer, consumer...more

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The California Financing Law — Commercial and Consumer Lenders Beware

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Lenders or loan brokers based in California or lending to either commercial or consumer borrowers based in California are subject to the California Financing Law (CFL), which imposes licensing requirements on both lenders or...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

After the Supreme Court Judgement – What’s Next for Motor Finance Claims in the UK?

The types of consumer credit arrangements at issue in all of the relevant motor finance cases are “three-cornered” transactions. Motor dealers would offer a car for sale, which a member of the public would then see and wish...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Shifting Gears: Adapting to Regulatory Changes in Auto Finance — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast

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In this episode of Moving the Metal, Brooke Conkle and Chris Capurso from Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services Practice Group discuss what dealerships and auto finance companies should prioritize amidst...more

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Congressional Democrats accuse Trump Administration of ‘incursion’ at the CFPB

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More than 185 Democrats in the House and Senate are urging Trump Administration officials to restore the enforcement and supervisory powers of the CFPB....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The CFPB's Race Against the Clock

While many Federal agencies, including the prudential bank regulators, have decided to hold back moving forward with initiatives until after the inauguration in January, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") has...more

Alston & Bird

CFPB Expands its Reach with Final Rule Establishing Nonbank Registry of Public Settlements, Consent Orders and Enforcement Actions

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What Happened? On June 3, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued its Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders Final Rule (the Final Rule), a 486-page rule...more

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Explainer Things: Episode 7

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It's the best of times and the worst of times for our pop-culture loving crew of consumer financial services lawyers. The movies are on a high with record box office receipts and stellar reviews for Barbie and Oppenheimer (or...more

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CFPB Warns Consumers to Be Cautious of High-Yield Savings Accounts with FinTech Companies: Perhaps a New Focus for the CFPB

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The CFPB is shifting its focus to FinTech and nonbank payment systems, circling back to past frontiers. This recent warning echoes the sentiment of former CFPB’s Director, Richard Cordray, focusing heavily on FinTechs and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB to Monitor Lenders During Expected Increase in Auto Loan Debt

On February 24, the CFPB posted a blog citing that the recent increase in car prices will result in both the total amount of debt and the average loan size to continue to increase, which will put increased pressure on some...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Regulatory Review, Reformatted

As 2021 runs in search of what’s new, we realize that the pandemic disruption has continued through 2021. The NMLS Ombudsman Meeting was held virtually and the upcoming American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

More Data Collection for Lenders on Horizon: CFPB Rulemaking Process Well Underway Related to ECOA Amendment

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), among other things, required the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to adopt regulations governing the collection of certain small...more

Allen Matkins

A Rash Of License Impersonators?

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In the last several weeks, California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (fka the Department of Business Oversight) has issued a number of consumer alerts involving companies fraudulently claiming to hold a...more

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California Dreamin': The Golden State Launches New Mini-CFPB

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Amid wildfires and viral plague, a new consumer protection agency rises in the West: The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI). Holland & Knight recently noted that a bill was pending on...more

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CFPB and Dept. of Education enter into new MOU on handling complaints; Director Kraninger tells lawmakers negotiations are...

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Last Monday, the CFPB announced that it had entered into a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Education to replace the MOU that was terminated by the ED effective October 1, 2017.  The new MOU, which is...more

Mayer Brown

Going Through Changes: Transitioning to a LIBOR-less World for Consumer Loans

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It is widely anticipated that the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) will be discontinued in 2021. As LIBOR commonly is used as an index rate for both residential mortgage and consumer loans, its discontinuance has the...more

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NYDFS requires regulated institutions to submit plans describing preparations for LIBOR transition by Feb. 7

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The New York Department of Financial Services has sent a letter to the institutions that it regulates requiring each such institution, by February 7, 2020, to provide to DFS a description of its “plan to address its LIBOR...more

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CA DBO concludes certain point-of-sale financing arrangements are loans, not credit sales

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On December 30, 2019, the California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) announced two actions regarding companies offering unregulated, point-of-sale financing to California residents.  In the first action,  the DBO...more

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NCUA finalizes rule authorizing new payday loan alternative option

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The National Credit Union Administration has published a final rule in the Federal Register that amend the NCUA’s general lending rule to provide federal credit unions (FCU) with a second option for offering “payday...more

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DBO Reports Record Number Of CFL Licensees

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California prohibits any person (unless exempt) from engaging in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license from the Commissioner of Business Oversight. Cal. Fin. Code § 22100(a). This applies to...more

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CFPB Publishes Informal Guidance on the TRID Rule

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For years, the mortgage industry has urged the CFPB to issue informal written guidance on the TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Rule, as well as other rules. ...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

A Remedy for 'True Lender' Lawsuits Already Exists

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Online lenders continue to be plagued by “true lender” lawsuits that challenge whether the named lender in loans made through a partnership between a nonbank lender and a regulated bank is actually an artifice in a...more

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Democratic House members urge Kraninger to resume MLA exams

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Twenty-three Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee have sent a letter to Kathy Kraninger, the CFPB’s new Director, urging the Bureau to resume examining its supervised entities for compliance with the...more

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