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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
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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
In this episode of the Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis, co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke's Consumer Financial Services Regulatory practice, delves into the current state of machine learning and 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 June 25, the CFPB issued its annual fair lending report covering its fair lending activity in 2023. The Bureau noted that in 2023 it undertook 28 fair lending examinations and announced four enforcement actions. It...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
On June 21, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint and settlement agreement in federal court alleging that a social media company is in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-3619,...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
Todays Discussion - ..CFPB and Regulator Leadership Set the Agenda. ..What is AI, Machine Learning, and Alternative Data? ..Key Areas of Regulatory Risk. ..Fair Lending. ..Marketing / Lead Generation. ...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
Anti-discrimination law applies to companies with black-box credit models using complex algorithms, according to a circular issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on May 26, 2022. According to the CFPB, the...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 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
A new CFPB blog post titled “An update on credit access and the Bureau’s first No-Action Letter” provides a boost to lenders using alternative data and machine learning in their underwriting models....more