Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Debate About The Need, If Any, For a Federal Charter for Non-Banks Engaged in the Payments Business
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: A Close Look at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Proposal to Supervise Large Nonbank Providers of Digital Wallets and Payment Apps
In The Cross-Hairs? Protecting Your Company Against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Investigations and Investors' Mortgage Buyback Claims
The CFPB published four advanced notices for proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register on Aug. 8, 2025. Each notice seeks comment from experts within the automobile financing, international money transfer, consumer...more
The CFPB's latest regulatory agenda signals that it is considering rules to define larger participants in markets for consumer payments, to be published in July 2023. This action, if implemented, would represent a sea change...more
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2022 applicable to the auto finance industry. So, what happened in 2022?...more
Putting the brakes on what it viewed as aggressive debt-collection tactics, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed suit in Ohio federal court on June 17, 2015, against Security National Automotive Acceptance...more
On June 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or the “Bureau”) published a final rule that will allow the agency to supervise certain larger nonbank auto finance companies for the first time and released auto...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a final rule allowing it to supervise nonbank companies that qualify as “larger participants of a market for automobile financing.” Relatedly, it adopted simultaneously a...more
The CFPB issued a final rule on June 10, 2015 allowing it to supervise nonbank companies that qualify as “larger participants of a market for automobile financing.” Relatedly, it adopted simultaneously a separate rule...more
Wednesday, the CFPB finalized its larger participant rule for nonbank auto finance companies, making them subject to supervision after the effective date of the rule. But the Bureau’s press release and newly-released auto...more
On September 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued and requested comment on a proposed rule that would, for the first time, subject nonbank auto finance companies to federal regulation and oversight. The...more