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Navigating the New Consumer Financial Services Landscape: Enforcement, Compliance, and Litigation Risks

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Financial services companies may feel relief from the aggressive federal oversight and regulation that defined the past decade. However, regulatory risk has not disappeared—it has shifted. ...more

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The CFPB's State Privacy Report Is the CFPB's Latest Effort to Influence State Policymakers

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In the closing months of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under Director Rohit Chopra, the CFPB has continued its efforts to influence how states regulate financial services providers. On November 12, the CFPB...more

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CFPB survives challenge based on improper funding as court denies plaintiff’s motion to dismiss

On October 17, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a peer-to-peer lending platform’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the CFPB. The Bureau had filed a First Amended Complaint alleging...more

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More Privacy, Please – February 2024

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Editor’s Note: In recent regulatory and enforcement developments, the White House announced a new executive order aimed at strengthening cybersecurity at U.S. ports, and another executive order was issued to protect sensitive...more

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CFPB Touts 2023 Greatest Hits and Casts a Line for Enforcement Hires

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What Happened? Earlier this week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”) released a blog post touting its 2023 successes in safeguarding “household financial stability” through the levying of fines and...more

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CFPB issues annual FDCPA report; FTC issues annual letter on debt collection to CFPB (UPDATED)

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The CFPB has issued its annual Fair Debt Collection Practices Act report covering the CFPB’s debt collection activities in 2022.  The report incorporates information from the FTC’s most recent annual letter to the CFPB...more

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CFPB's Section 1071 Final Rule (Part 3): Potential Problem Areas – The Consumer Finance Podcast

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Please join Troutman Pepper Partner Chris Willis and his colleagues Mark Furletti, Joe Reilly, and Christine Emello for the last installment of a special three-part series about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2022 Annual Review - Credit Cards

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to the credit card industry. As evidenced by the timeline, federal regulators (primarily the CFPB) are beginning to renew their focus on credit...more

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CFPB Pans Credit Reporting Agency Consumer Complaint Handling

On January 5, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued a report detailing consumer complaint deficiencies by the national credit reporting agencies (NCRAs). Specifically, the CFPB found that, in 2021,...more

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Financial Services Report - Winter 2021

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Welcome to the Financial Services Report, holiday style! Banks and non-banks alike started early this year with additions and changes to their regulator stockings. The Senate confirmed Rohit Chopra as the new CFPB Director....more

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When Is It A Firm Offer Of Credit?

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Creditors often ask when the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s (FCRA) rules relating to firm offers of credit apply. Do they apply when the creditor makes a prequalified offer? Does that change if the creditor makes a prescreened...more

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CFPB Issues Second Consent Order under Acting Director Mulvaney

Security Group, Inc. and several of its wholly owned subsidiaries entered into a consent order with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in which it agreed to injunctive relief and to pay a $5 million penalty....more

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CFPB settles with consumer reporting agency for alleged UDAAP/FCRA violations

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The CFPB announced that it has entered into a consent order with Experian, a consumer reporting agency, for allegedly engaging in the deceptive marketing of credit scores in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection...more

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CFPB issues Fall 2016 Supervisory Highlights

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In its Fall 2016 Supervisory Highlights, which covers supervision work generally completed between May and August 2016, the CFPB highlights violations found by its examiners involving origination and servicing of auto...more

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CFPB and California Announce Enforcement Actions Against Online Lender

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On Tuesday, September 27, 2016, the CFPB and the California Department of Business Oversight (“DBO”) announced separate enforcement actions against Flurish, Inc., an online lender that does business as “LendUp” in California...more

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