Driven by Data: Auto Finance Trends Uncovered - Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The Next FCRA Frontier: Identity Theft and CFPB Updates — FCRA Focus Podcast
2024 Credit Reporting Review: Impactful Changes and Future Forecast — FCRA Focus Podcast
Podcast - The CFPB Takes Action on a Toronto-Based Bank’s Consumer Credit Reports
CFPB’s Supervisory Highlights on Auto-Finance and Auto-Servicing — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Podcast - The CFPB's Effort to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Reports
Breaking Down Credit Reporting With Credit Builders Alliance — FCRA Focus Podcast
Resolving FCRA Disputes With e-OSCAR: Insights from Joel Strickland — FCRA Focus Podcast
The CFPB's Rule to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Reports
U.S. District Court Addresses Federal Preemption for State Credit Reporting Laws
The FTC Enforces the Fair Credit Reporting Act
Year in Review and a Look Ahead: The Evolving Landscape of Background Screening and Credit Reporting — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Third Circuit holds creditors should investigate all indirect disputes of accounts on a credit report
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Responding to Direct and Indirect Identity Theft Disputes Under the FCRA: What Are The Differences?
Third Circuit Hands Down Decision in FCRA Pay Status Cases - FCRA Focus Podcast
The Third Circuit’s Decision in Bibbs v. Trans Union: What it Means for Fair Credit Reporting Act Litigation
Keeping Up With the Bureau Episode 3: Evolving Federal and State Requirements for Furnishers and Users of Consumer Reports - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Keeping Up With the Bureau Episode 2: FCRA Preemption Issues, Infringing State Laws, and the CFPB's Position
CFPB’s Increasingly Active Interest in Credit Reporting - FCRA Focus Podcast
CFPB Advisory Opinion on Name-Only Matching Under FCRA - The Consumer Finance Podcast
On July 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rule prohibiting the inclusion of medical debt on consumer credit reports. The court also...more
In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit in Reyes v. Equifax Information Systems, L.L.C., joined the First, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in affirming the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas’s...more
On June 23, the Oregon Legislature chaptered SB 605, enacting new restrictions on the reporting of medical debt to consumer reporting agencies. The law prohibits any person from reporting to a consumer reporting agency the...more
The CFPB on April 30, 2025, reached an agreement with lender trade groups to vacate the Prohibition on Creditors and Consumer Reporting Agencies Concerning Medical Information Rule (the Medical Debt Rule). The joint motion...more
On May 1, the CFPB filed a joint motion with two financial trade groups to vacate a Biden-era rule barring most medical debt from appearing on consumer credit reports. The motion comes after lender groups filed a lawsuit in...more
On March 3, a trio of credit reporting agencies (defendants) moved to dismiss a plaintiff’s second amended complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The defendants faced allegations...more
On February 6, the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a 90-day stay of the upcoming March 17 effective date of the CFPB’s rule banning medical debt from appearing on credit reports. ...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was medical debt collection....more
On January 28, the CFPB expressed support for legislative efforts in Massachusetts, Washington State, Oregon and South Dakota which prohibit furnishing medical debt information to a consumer credit reporting agency and...more
On January 7, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published a final Rule (the “Rule”) that prohibits consumer reporting agencies from including individuals’ medical debt on consumer credit reports....more
On January 7, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule that would generally prohibit lenders from considering medical debt information when determining a consumer’s eligibility for credit, and...more
On January 7, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) finalized its rule aimed at removing an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the consumer reports of approximately 15 million Americans....more
The CFPB is in the process of completing its final rule intended to ban the inclusion of medical debts in credit reports, bureau Director Rohit Chopra said at a White House session intended to focus on practices in the...more
The steady drumbeat of steps during Rohit Chopra’s tenure as CFPB Director to call into question the reliability and predictability of medical debt information in credit underwriting reached a crescendo last week with the...more
On May 16, the Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 2933. The bill amends the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act making it unlawful for a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to create a consumer...more
Earlier this week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its second report detailing changes in the credit reporting of medical debts made by the three national consumer reporting agencies (CRAs)...more
In this episode of Troutman Pepper's FCRA Focus podcast, host Kim Phan delves into the topic of dispute resolution through the e-OSCAR system with special guest, Joel Strickland, the director of customer success at e-OSCAR....more
The CFPB published its Consumer Response Annual Report for 2023, which discusses the consumer complaints received by the CFPB in that year and how companies responded to those complaints. The CFPB monitors consumers’...more
Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) kicked off a rulemaking process that, if enacted, would reshape the credit reporting and debt collection landscape and could have a detrimental effect on medical and...more
On February 14, the CFPB released a report examining debt collection credit reporting trends from 2018 to 2022. The Bureau’s report, Market Snapshot: An Update on Third-Party Debt Collections Tradelines Reporting, is based on...more
In a blog post published last week, the CFPB looked at the connection between eligibility for financial assistance under policies mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and medical collections. The ACA requires nonprofit...more
On March 1, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report highlighting the effect of medical collections on consumer credit reports. The CFPB found that medical collections tradelines appeared on 43...more
In March of this year, the three major nationwide credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) announced there would be substantial changes to medical collection debt reporting coming this summer in an effort...more
Just a little more than a month after issuing a report taking aim at medical debt collections, the CFPB has issued a new report on “Medical billing and collection issues described in consumer complaints.”...more
Last week, CFPB Deputy Director Zixta Martinez provided the opening remarks at the CFPB’s Academic Research Council meeting. In her remarks, Martinez emphasized the CFPB’s role as a data-driven agency and welcomed further...more