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Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (Banking Committee) Republicans have received the Senate Parliamentarian’s approval to cut the CFPB’s funding. As a result, in the large budget reconciliation bill now being written...more
The Senate Banking, Housing and Affairs Committee (Banking Committee) would eliminate the CFPB’s current funding source, as part of Committee’s Republican version of its part of the massive budget reconciliation bill,...more
On May 12, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and acting CFPB Director Russell Vought announced in a Federal Register filing that it is withdrawing dozens of its existing guidance materials—including policy...more
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The House Financial Services Committee’s Financial Institutions Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 26, to discuss possible changes to the structure and responsibilities of the CFPB....more
Jonathan McKernan, President Trump’s nominee to head the CFPB, pledged that the agency would “implement and enforce the federal consumer financial laws and perform each of its other statutorily assigned functions.”...more
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Last week, a coalition of all 23 democratic attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland warning against efforts by the Trump Administration to defund and disband the...more
Visit our resource center, CFPB Pause: Where From Here?, to stay on top of the latest and what it may mean for the federal and state regulatory and enforcement landscape. On February 8, the Consumer Financial Protection...more
Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought has temporarily put a halt to virtually all of the agency’s work. ...more
In a dramatic series of events, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) has undergone leadership changes, signaling a significant shift in its regulatory approach. These changes began with the firing of...more
A new acting director. Freezes on any rulemaking, enforcement, or supervisory activities. Attempts to dismantle the department from within. In the span of a short forty-eight hours, the CFPB has faced possibly the greatest...more
Today’s podcast episode is a repurposing of part one of our December 16 highly-attended and praised webinar consisting of Alan Kaplinsky’s exclusive interview of David Silberman, who held several senior positions at the CFPB...more
“Fair access” banking laws, at the epicenter of the debates between ESG and “anti-woke” regulation and federal/state preemption, may see a resurgence under the incoming administration. In recent years, the landscape of...more
President Biden is calling for tougher standards and supervision for large regional banks in the wake of recent instability in the US banking sector. On March 30, 2023, the White House issued a Fact Sheet calling on the...more
On June 29, 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC, and together the Commissions) announced that the Commissions approved a memorandum of understanding...more
One of the most eye-catching items in the recently released 2017 Annual Report of the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) is the significant decline in enforcement activity...more
Following the 2016 election, corporate governance circles have focused intently on what will happen in the nation’s capital with regard to a potential roll back of the current regulatory regime. The Trump Administration...more
On June 12, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a 150-page report called for by President Trump’s Executive Order 13772 on Core Principles for Regulating the United States Financial System. The Report, entitled...more
In his first weeks in office, President Trump has taken steps to undo or alter major components of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”). These include delaying implementation of the...more
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