May 7, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Firings on Hold As Legal Battle Continues Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reinstated a district court order blocking the agency’s planned reductions in force while also blocking the Trump administration from trying to shift funding away...
May 1, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
FDIC Looking To Reduce Staff By 1,250 An internal memo sent to staff last month at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) revealed that the agency is looking to reduce its staff by 1,250, a downsizing of 20 percent. The 1,250 figure includes roughly 500 employees...
Apr 29, 2025 | Financial Literacy, News
62% of Credit Card “Outsiders” Using Some Other Form of Credit A recent report from PYMNTS Intelligence and Atelio by FIS entitled “Decision Guide: What Credit Card Outsiders Want — and How FIs Can Bring Them Back,” found that a strong majority (62...
Apr 23, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Attempts to Lay Off 90% of Staff, Although Judge Temporarily Halts Efforts For Now Last week, multiple outlets reported that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was planning to cut roughly 1,500 employees—or 90 percent of its staff—leaving only...
Apr 17, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Drops Enforcement of Nonbank Registry Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it will not prioritize enforcement of a regulation creating a registry for nonbank financial companies that have broken consumer laws and have been...
Apr 15, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Scraps Credit Card Late Fee Rule The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has chosen to abandon its rule imposing an $8 limit on credit card late fees, according to a consent judgment motion filed this week. The agency and other industry groups like the...
Apr 9, 2025 | Banks & Credit Unions, Financial Literacy, News
Debt Causing Nearly Two in Three Americans Carrying Credit Card Debt to Delay or Avoid Other Financial Decisions, Study Finds According to a new Bankrate report, 64% of U.S. adults carrying credit card debt have delayed or avoided other financial decisions as a result...
Apr 3, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Says It Won’t Enforce Payday Rule Last Friday, two days before it was set to go into effect, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said that it would not prioritize enforcement or supervision actions with regard to any penalties or fines under the...
Apr 1, 2025 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senate Passes Resolution Repealing CFPB Overdraft Rule; House Action Awaits Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the final rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to cap rate fees. The Senate passed Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott’s...
Mar 26, 2025 | Federal Regulation, News
OCC Announces It Will Remove “Reputation Risk” from Bank Examination Manual The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) recently announced that it will remove the term “reputation risk” from its examination manual. The examination teams will not...
