Regulatory Rollback: Impact on Industry of CFPB's Withdrawal of Fair Lending and UDAAP Informal Guidance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Fair Lending Shake-Ups: CFPB Vacates Townstone Settlement, FHFA Ends GSEs' Special Purpose Credit Programs — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The FinReg Frontier: AI and Machine Learning in Consumer Finance — The Consumer Finance Podcast
UDAAP and Fair Lending Developments: 2024 Year-in-Review and 2025 Predictions — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Uncovering Disparities: The CFPB's Small Business Lending Study – The Consumer Finance Podcast
Fintech Focus Podcast | Reconciling AI With Fair Lending and Consumer Protection
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: State Fair Access and Debanking Laws Bring Country’s Political and Cultural Divisions to the Fore
Redlining Isn’t What it Used To Be
Discrimination and Bias in Residential Lending
Keeping up with all the new regulations
Troutman Pepper Attorneys Update Fair Lending Handbook for the American Association of Bank Directors - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Fair Lending 101 for Debt Collectors - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Corporate Law Report: U.S. Manufacturing, Social Media, Online Endorsements, Hart Scott Rodino, More
On July 10, the Massachusetts attorney general announced a $2.5 million settlement with a Delaware-based student loan company to resolve allegations that the company’s lending practices, including the use of artificial...more
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its latest Supervisory Highlights report, focusing on the use of advanced technologies in credit scoring models. ...more
On September 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued new guidance outlining lenders’ obligations under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B when using artificial intelligence (AI)...more
On September 19, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Consumer Protection Circular, “Adverse Action Notification Requirements and the Proper Use of the CFPB’s Sample Forms Provided in Regulation B”...more
The CFPB has issued a Circular addressing adverse action notification requirements and the proper use of the CFPB's sample forms provided in Regulation B when using artificial intelligence (AI) and complex credit models, and...more
On September 20th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) published guidance – Consumer Financial Protection Circular, 2023-03 – regarding the list of reasons that must be provided when an applicant is denied...more
Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board’s (“FRB”) Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks, titled “Furthering the Vision of the Fair Housing Act,“ to the National Fair Housing Alliance 2023 National Conference earlier...more
As shown by a new report, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) is focusing its fair lending work on mortgage origination and pricing, small business lending, redlining, and the use of artificial...more
The FTC recently sent its annual letter to the CFPB reporting on the FTC’s activities related to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B. The new letter reports on the FTC’s activities in 2022. The Bureau...more
On February 9, the FTC announced it recently provided the CFPB with its annual summary of activities related to ECOA enforcement, focusing specifically on the Commission’s activities with respect to Regulation B. ...more
Compliance lawyers last summer were predicting that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would announce a robust regulatory agenda under the Biden administration, but we had not yet seen many details that allowed...more
As previously discussed, financial services regulators are increasingly focused on how businesses use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in underwriting and pricing consumer finance products. Although...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been contemplating data, algorithms, and machine learning for years. In 2017, as part of a field hearing on alternative data, the CFPB issued a request for information in...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) joined other federal agencies in announcing an increased focus on fair lending issues. On October 22, 2021, DOJ announced a new initiative to crack down on “modern-day” redlining. DOJ is...more
On August 3, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks comment on ways to clarify the Equal Credit Opportunity Act’s (ECOA) implementing regulation, Regulation...more
The CFPB’s annual fair lending report covering its 2019 activities is scheduled to be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register. While most of the report recycles information about which we have previously blogged, it does...more
In August 2019, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed rulemaking that potentially would make it harder to bring disparate impact discrimination claims under the Fair Housing Act. The proposed...more