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1 Jul 2010, 5:00 am by Deepak Gupta
[And] although Congress enacted the landmark Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it failed to modernize the Federal Trade Commission. [read post]
Today, my Conflict of Laws class and I watched a live-streamed hearing involving "choice of law": "state" (about contracts) versus "federal law" (prohibiting practices affecting contracts) The context is a bit dramatic and definitely overdue for action. [read post]
22 May 2013, 5:46 pm by Don Maurice
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has issued rules on The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (“CARD Act”) to make it easier for stay-at-home spouses and partners to get credit cards by allowing card issuers to consider household income in their applications. [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 7:10 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
New York Times – Court Gives President More Power Over Consumer Agency Chief – An appeals court panel said the director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was too independent, so it gave the president the power to fire him at will. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 9:58 am by Mark Weidemaier
By a 51-50 vote, with Vice President Pence breaking the tie, the Senate has voted to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule forbidding the use of contract terms (in covered consumer loan products) barring consumers to bring or participate in class actions. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 10:33 am by Todd Zywicki
The growth has attracted the attention of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a recently formed regulator that has been scrutinizing pawnshops, along with other nonbank lenders like payday loan operators. [read post]
24 Aug 2020, 2:04 am by Edgar (aka MrConsumer)
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a series of proposed settlements it made with several companies that had been accused of charging upfront fees to students when signing up to use their debt relief services. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 7:19 am by Shriver Center
In July, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a final rule that stopped banks and other financial institutions from forcing customers out of court and into a one-sided dispute resolution process known as arbitration.Congress could soon strip Americans of their right to join together in a lawsuit and against banks that have cheated them.In a move clearly inspired by Wall Street, not Main Street, the Senate is poised to block the… [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 1:56 pm by Alan S. Kaplinsky and Mark J. Levin
The recent data breach disclosure by Equifax raised an outcry from consumer advocates trying to link the data breach to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final arbitration rule. [read post]
11 May 2012, 8:17 am
The Federal Trade Commission has joined the Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in filing a memorandum in support of the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 5:15 am by igorodetski
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the highly controversial centerpiece of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, is still struggling to assume its full regulatory authority. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 9:07 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
Mishkin The CFPB has issued its second report entitled “Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Pursuant to Section 1017(e)(4) of the Dodd-Frank Act. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 6:54 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
Mishkin The CFPB has issued its third report entitled “Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Pursuant to Section 1017(e)(4) of the Dodd-Frank Act. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 8:13 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
Mishkin The CFPB has issued its fourth report entitled “Report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Pursuant to Section 1017(e)(4) of the Dodd-Frank Act. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 7:41 am by Eric Mogel
On July 22, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a proposal with respect to the method for making “annual inflation adjustments to the threshold for exempting small loans from higher priced mortgage loan appraisal requirements”. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 11:47 am by Chris Min
On June 24, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a proposed amendment to delay the effective date of the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Act, also known as the Know Before You Owe mortgage disclosure rule, until October 3, 2015. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 12:24 pm by Elizabeth Williams
  On June 24, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Reserve Board published joint amendments to Regulation CC. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 6:14 am by Robert Kraft
The AP reported that new documents “show the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has not recorded a single enforcement action against banks, credit card companies, debt collectors or any finance companies whatsoever since the Trump administration took over the agency late last year. [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 4:09 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent and objective oversight authority established under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended: “Though not statutorily required, the OIG compiles annual listings of major management challenges facing the Board and the CFPB. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 2:29 pm by Michael Sugarman
  On November 20, 2017, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency each modified their respective regulations in large part to align with “changes made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [] to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act[] (“HMDA“). [read post]