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16 Feb 2007, 1:06 pm
by Jeff Sovern A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson blogged about a credit union president's warning that the new statute regulating loans to service members and their dependents "might well be called the death to lending to service members act. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 8:45 pm
by Jeff Sovern I am pleased to announce that the 2008 supplement to our casebook is now finished. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 6:13 pm
by Jeff Sovern One of my students, Andre Pascariu pointed me to this story about an actor who appeared in a Honda commercial and then decided to take advantage of the leasing offer he had pitched. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 5:39 pm
by Jeff Sovern One of the many interesting provisions of the Credit CARD Act that has not received much attention is the limits it imposes on penalty fees. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 3:45 pm
by Jeff Sovern I just finished listening to the audio version of Ron Suskind's Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 12:58 pm
by Jeff Sovern The American Banker has run a couple of pieces on debt collection practices here and here. [read post]
13 May 2009, 2:16 pm
by Jeff Sovern The American Banker ran a piece I wrote in their Viewpoints section today titled "Borrowers Must Understand Their Obligations" (the American Banker's content is available only to subscribers but they offer a free two-week trial subscription if you want to read the piece). [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 5:52 pm
by Jeff Sovern I posted yesterday the abstract of Debra Pogrund Stark's and Jessica M. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 2:56 pm
by Jeff Sovern Consumer protection has been much in the news these days, but based on a quick look, there don't seem to be a lot of columnists who specialize in consumer protection. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 3:28 pm
by Jeff Sovern I am convinced that one reason the CFPA has run into trouble in the Senate is that it's an issue that can't easily be boiled down to a soundbite, and hence generates little passion. [read post]
31 May 2012, 2:11 pm
by Jeff Sovern According to Governor Romney's economic adviser Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard, Romney will soon propose "a new system of consumer financial regulation that either moves the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outside of the Federal Reserve or breaks up the new agency and places the powers within existing financial regulators. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 12:47 pm
by Jeff Sovern The National Law Journal has an interesting article on the response of lawyers representing businesses to the CFPB, headlined "Agenda Unknown" (I can't post a link because it requires a subscription). [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 12:58 pm
by Jeff Sovern As a teacher of consumer law, and the co-author of a consumer law casebook, I've been trying to figure out what to do about course coverage of the subprime mortgage meltdown. [read post]
23 Apr 2011, 8:34 am
by Jeff Sovern When we talked in class this semester about how many credit card issuers send out "pre-screened" credit card applications, I mentioned how identity thieves famously "dumpster dive" for them after the consumer has thrown them away, fill them out, and send them in, using the identity thief's address. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 4:00 pm
by Jeff Sovern The letters arrive every January and February with "Important Tax Information Enclosed" written on the envelopes. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 2:16 pm
by Jeff Sovern Here. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 8:07 am
by Jeff Sovern I have previously blogged here and here about how credit bureaus lack sufficient incentives to prevent identity theft. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 12:57 pm
by Jeff Sovern Ed Mierzwinski and NASDAQ/Dow Jones Newswires have reported that opponents of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have attached riders to appropriations bills to subject CFPB funding to the congressional appropriations process rather than the current system under which the Bureau gets funding outside that process, as is true of other bank regulators like the OCC. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 7:42 am
by Jeff Sovern Over the weekend, Brian Wolfman blogged about the proposed Interagency Guidance on Subprime Mortgage Lending. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 12:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern The 2003 FACTA Act directed federal regulators to issue identity theft guidelines on "red flags" and address discrepancies (identity thieves often use an address other than the consumer's because having credit cards, for example, sent to the consumer-victim will usually do the thief little good). [read post]
