On July 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s medical debt rule. The final rule, originally scheduled to go into effect in March of this...more
On May 27, the CFPB submitted its motion to dismiss a lawsuit with prejudice filed against a lease-to-own finance company and several other entities. As previously covered by InfoBytes, the CFPB sued the lease-to-own finance...more
In July, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a report highlighting various unfair, deceptive, and abusive acts or practices it claims to have uncovered during its supervisory examinations from July 2022 to...more
The CFPB complaint database was created with altruistic intentions. They envisioned a tool that consumers could use to search a downloadable database for research on a product or specific lender, just as they would research...more