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07.10.17

Financial Services Law—CFPB Bans Most Consumer Arbitrations

Today, and to no one’s surprise, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a final rule that prevents banks and other covered providers of specified consumer financial products from incorporating or enforcing predispute mandatory arbitration to the extent that the clause bars ...


06.22.17

Supreme Court: FDCPA Doesn’t Cover Owned Debt

A bank or other person may collect debts that it purchased for its own account without triggering the statutory requirements of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a unanimous Supreme Court recently ruled.


06.08.17

California Court Upholds CFPB’s Constitutionality, Request for CID

Taking the opposite approach from recent decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a California federal court upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while also ordering the defendant to comply with a civil investigative demand issued by the ...


05.12.17

CSBS Sues OCC Over Fintech Charters

An organization of state banking regulators hit the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency with a lawsuit, claiming the federal agency’s plan to issue fintech charters exceeds its authority.


04.13.17

$3M Penalty for Credit Reporting Agency in CFPB Action

A major credit bureau and its subsidiaries will pay a civil penalty of $3 million, revise how it represents how the credit scores it markets to consumers are used, and put in place changes in its compliance management system in a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or ...


03.30.17

Industry Groups Respond on Consumer Access to Financial Records

Financial industry groups responded to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) request for information on consumer access to their financial records.


02.17.17

CFPB Releases Prepaid Rule Guidance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released guidance on the agency's forthcoming Prepaid Rule, set to take effect on October 1, 2017.


02.02.17

Comments Reveal Mixed Reaction to OCC Fintech Charter

As the comment period ended on the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) proposal to establish a fintech charter, stakeholders weighed in on both sides of the idea.


01.19.17

The Last of Obama-Era CFPB Enforcement?

Making the most of its enforcement powers before the new administration takes over, and likely concerned that its days as a stand-alone bureau may be coming to an end, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against entities ranging from Virginia pawnbrokers to national lender ...


10.11.16

Court to CFPB: Unconstitutional and Wrong on RESPA

In a landmark decision impacting the consumer financial services industry and beyond, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has declared unconstitutional a core component of the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and overturned a $109 ...