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29 Aug 2019, 1:40 pm
Notably, the Bureau did not require Maxitransfers to provide any redress to consumers. [read post]
20 Aug 2019, 9:31 am
On August 14, 2019, Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote a letter imploring Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger to implement the payments provisions of the 2017 Payday Rule by the scheduled August 19, 2019, compliance date, by requesting a lifting of the stay imposed by the Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit challenging the Rule. [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 2:28 pm
In the “average” consumer bankruptcy, where the majority of debt comes from credit cards and a home or auto loan, establishing a repayment plan is straightforward. [read post]
19 Aug 2019, 1:48 pm
It is entirely possible that this new decision could harm consumers, contrary to the CFPB’s mandate to protect them. [read post]
14 Aug 2019, 6:07 am
(“Equifax”) entered into a global settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and 50 U.S. states and territories (the “Equifax Settlement”) to resolve allegations that its failure to take reasonable steps to secure its network led to a 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 7:41 am
The disaster shook congressional confidence in the FTC, causing Congress to think that financial services needed its own consumer protection regulator, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). [read post]
8 Aug 2019, 9:05 pm
New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) is leading the investigation into whether early wage access providers seek to circumvent state consumer protection laws—which prohibit payday lending—by referring to payment from customers as “tips” rather than interest payments. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 11:35 am
In its Consent Agreement with Maine’s Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection and Attorney General, Ocwen admitted that after July 2014 it pursued foreclosures against Maine homeowners based on paperwork which the State […] [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 5:25 am
While standards for anonymous data vary, modern data protection laws, such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), consider that each and every person in a dataset has to be protected for the dataset to be considered anonymous. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 7:41 pm
Sorensen filed for bankruptcy protection, her interest in the jewelry became part of the bankruptcy estate. 2. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 4:24 pm
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is soliciting comments on possible amendments to the Ability to Repay/Qualified Mortgage (ATR/QM) Rule. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 10:43 am
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced it will allow more time for comments on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. [read post]
1 Aug 2019, 2:56 pm
Not only is the Bureau going outside its lane, but it's neglecting its statutory duties: the Bureau is charged with ensuring consumer access to markets for financial products and services and with preventing discrimination in consumer finance markets. [read post]
1 Aug 2019, 6:39 am
With no single entity clearly responsible for holding Equifax accountable, it took a barrage of investigations and lawsuits filed by 50 attorneys general, the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, along with class-action lawsuits, to extract a settlement amounting to $700 million (possibly even higher factoring in other costs and fines). [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 6:46 pm
Equifax will also pay $275 million to states and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 10:02 am
What about the 2017 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion on vacancies at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)? [read post]
28 Jul 2019, 8:53 am
Follow-up to my previous posting – Equifax data breach settlement: How to file a claim for $125 or free credit reporting, please see the following information [h/t Pete Weiss]: Wired – “f you’re one of the 147 million people in the United States affected by the egregious Equifax credit bureau hack in 2017, you were probably resigned to getting some free credit monitoring out of it and moving on…” CNBC: “Equifax will pay $671 million to settle… [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 12:26 pm
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 19-7 Issue: Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, violates the separation of powers. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 6:31 pm
Not only is the Bureau going outside its lane, but it's neglecting its statutory duties: the Bureau is charged with ensuring consumer access to markets for financial products and services and with preventing discrimination in consumer finance markets. [read post]
24 Jul 2019, 1:52 pm
A motion to dismiss has been filed by the group of credit repair companies sued by the CFPB in Utah federal district court for alleged violations of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) and the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA). [read post]
