Proposed Regulation, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

CFPB Withdraws Proposed FCRA Data Broker Rule

Troutman Pepper Locke on 5/15/2025

Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) filed its decision to withdraw the proposed rule titled “Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices (Regulation V)” in the Federal Register....more

CFPB Launches FCRA Rulemaking to Eliminate Creditor Use of Medical Debt

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/28/2023

On September 21, 2023, with limited time to digest the comments received by September 11, 2023 from the request for information regarding medical payment products, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) started the...more

CFPB Proposed Regulatory Activity Agenda Released, Focuses on Limitations on Bank and Credit Card Fees, Small Business Lending...

Buchalter on 1/11/2023

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget has released the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Agenda) reports on the actions administrative agencies...more

California DFPI Announces Modifications to Proposed Rules Relating to Companies’ Responses to Consumer Complaints

Troutman Pepper Locke on 12/26/2022

As discussed here, on May 20, California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI or Department) announced that it had filed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with the Office of Administrative Law. The purpose...more

California and Criminal Convictions: Employers May Want to Reexamine Their Background Check Policies in Light of Proposed...

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/30/2016

In early 2016, the California Fair Employment and Housing Council (FEHC) proposed regulations that are intended to define and clarify how using a person’s criminal history may violate the Fair Employment and Housing Act...more

FINRA Proposes Rule Strengthening Background Checks

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 10/27/2014

Last month, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a proposed rule requiring member firms to strengthen their background investigations of applicants seeking registration. The proposed rule adopts,...more

CFPB's Proposed Rule Promotes More Efficient and Effective Privacy Disclosures

Baker Donelson on 5/27/2014

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has proposed a rule that would promote more effective privacy disclosures from financial institutions to its respective customers. Currently, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)...more

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