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Federal Court Rejects DOJ’s Request to End Oversight of Pennsylvania Bank’s Redlining Settlement

On July 23, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied the Department of Justice’s motion to terminate a consent order requiring a Pennsylvania bank to implement a five-year fair lending...more

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Federal Judge rejects request to release ESSA Bank from redlining settlement

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A federal judge has rejected the Trump Administration’s request to release from court supervision a bank that had been accused of discriminatory lending....more

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DOJ Moves to End $13 Million Redlining Consent Order

On May 28, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion to terminate its redlining consent order against a New Jersey-based bank. The five-year order, entered in September 2022, resolved allegations that the banks violated...more

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CFPB memo outlines supervision and enforcement agendas under new administration

On April 16, the CFPB’s Chief Legal Officer, Mark Paoletta, issued a memo outlining the CFPB’s 2025 supervision and enforcement priorities, explaining that the CFPB intends to focus resources towards threats to service...more

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Troutman Pepper Locke Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter – March 2025 # 4

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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

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New Jersey Attorney General Releases Report on Republic First Bank’s Unlawful Redlining Practices

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On October 29, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the state’s Division on Civil Rights (DCR) released a report detailing the findings of a multi-year investigation into Republic First Bank (Republic) and its...more

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DOJ, CFPB file complaint, propose order against mortgage company for alleged redlining

On October 15, the CFPB and DOJ announced an enforcement action against a mortgage company, alleging it engaged in redlining against majority-Black neighborhoods in the greater Birmingham, Alabama area. According to the...more

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2024 Pre-Election Analysis: Financial Services

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Financial services encompass a wide range of services offered by the nation’s financial institutions, including banking, mortgage, investment, and credit services. The next administration and Congress’s financial services...more

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Nutter Bank Report: February 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state authorities have agreed to a consent order with a large national bank to resolve allegations that the bank engaged in a pattern or practice of lending discrimination by affecting...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 Reaches $1.15 Million Redlining Settlement With American Bank of Oklahoma

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On August 28, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its eighth redlining settlement under its Combatting Redlining Initiative. The settlement between the DOJ and the American Bank of Oklahoma, which originated from a...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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DOJ Settles Redlining Claim Against ESSA Bank

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The Justice Department (DOJ) recently announced a settlement with ESSA Bank & Trust (ESSA), which has agreed to pay over $3 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of redlining in violation of...more

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Financial Services Weekly Roundup: The CFPB Digs Into “Seasoned” Qualified Mortgages

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In the News. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to create a new category of “seasoned” qualified mortgages; the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of...more

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Damages Under Dodd-Frank: Federal Court Awards CFPB $59 Million in Unprecedented Penalties and Restitution Analysis

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So much to say, so little time. Historically groundbreaking, a federal court in Madison, Wisconsin engaged in the most robust, methodical damages analysis under the Consumer Financial Protection Act, found in Title X of the...more

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DOJ settles redlining lawsuit against First Merchants Bank

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced last Thursday that it had reached an agreement with First Merchants Bank, an Indiana state-chartered bank, to settle the redlining lawsuit that the DOJ filed against the bank on June...more

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What's Old is New Again: The Future of Bank Partnership Programs from Small Dollar Installment Loans to Mortgages to Everything

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Bank partnerships allow banks to offer loans to consumers and businesses by leveraging the resources of non-bank entities. The relationships between banks and their non-bank entity partners have existed for many years. In the...more

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New Jersey Expands Regulation of Mortgage Servicers

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• New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed Assembly Bill A-4997 into law on April 29, 2019, dramatically expanding the state's regulation of residential mortgage servicers. • The law requires nonbank finance companies that...more

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Consumer financial services: The road ahead: Mortgage origination and servicing

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In 2018, the CFPB issued multiple rules, and Congress passed legislation, to clarify, revise and update the regulatory framework applicable to the home mortgage origination and servicing market....more

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State Regulatory Enforcement Initiatives: Cooperation and Conflict

On January 30, 2018, DWT payments team member Andy Lorentz moderated a panel at ACI’s 18th National Forum on Prepaid Card Compliance, in Washington, D.C., entitled “Update on State Regulatory Enforcement Initiatives Affecting...more

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Guidelines for best practices in real estate enforcement proceedings

The avalanche of bad loans that has hit Italy in recent years has drawn attention on the inefficiency of the judicial debt collection system, one of the leading causes of the banking crisis and the low prices that the banks...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation—the company that “serves as the back end for much Wall Street trading”—has announced a big step forward in the embrace of blockchain technology to track and report transactions. IBM...more

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CFPB Month in Review for August 2016

In case you missed it, here is what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was up to over the last month: Enforcement Actions and Litigation - Enforcement Action Against First National Bank of Omaha - ...more

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Financial Services Weekly News - August 2016 #4

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Editor's Note - Friend the Fed! As is the case every August, our federal government and regulators are hard at work, laser focused on the important issues of the day. In this regard, on August 18, the Federal Reserve...more

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CFPB touts initiatives in “fact sheets”

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To commemorate its fifth anniversary, the CFPB released a series of “fact sheets” touting its initiatives. The “fact sheets” consist of the following: CFPB: By the numbers. The CFPB lists various statistics, such as...more

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