Welcome to the “Overview: 2024 Lessons and 2025 Emerging Trends” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. As Goodwin predicted in our previous year in review, the enforcement and...more
In 2024, Goodwin tracked four public enforcement actions related to credit reporting or credit repair services, consistent with the four actions tracked in 2023. Between 2017 and 2024, there were an average of four actions...more
Welcome to the Credit Reporting chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review. Looking Ahead to 2024 - The CFPB’s announcement of a proposed rulemaking to remove medical bills from...more
On April 20, the Washington governor signed HB 1311 to enact provisions relating to credit repair services performed by a credit services organization. Among other things, the Act outlines new requirements, including that a...more
In protracted litigation springing from the sale of “free” credit reports that “were not really free,” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a party’s waiver of its right to arbitrate state law claims did not result in...more
The CFPB announced that it had simultaneously filed two complaints and corresponding proposed stipulated final judgments in a California federal district court in actions against four credit repair companies and three...more
The CFPB announced that it has filed a lawsuit in a California federal district court against a credit repair company for alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA) and Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR)....more