Apr 13, 2022 | FinTech, News
21 Attorneys General Say CFPB Should Regulate Buy Now, Pay Later Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) closed its request for comments on the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) inquiry it launched on December 16. Among the comments received, 21 state...
Apr 11, 2022 | Federal Regulation, News
Chopra Plans Crackdown on Repeat Offenders In a recent speech at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra announced plans to rein in repeat industry offenders by potentially forcing the divestiture of...
Apr 8, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, News
House Financial Services Committee Holds Hearing on Overdraft Fees Last week, the House Financial Services (HFSC) Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions held a hybrid hearing entitled, “The End of Overdraft Fees? Examining the Movement to...
Apr 6, 2022 | Federal Regulation, Financial Literacy, News
CFPB Releases 2021 Annual Report; Credit Reporting Receives the Most Complaints While Personal Loans Near Bottom of List Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its 2021 Consumer Response Annual Report which analyzes complaints submitted by...
Apr 4, 2022 | Congressional Legislation, Financial Literacy, News
Credit Reporting Firms Announce Removal of Most Medical Debt from Credit Reports The largest credit reporting firms, Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, recently announced they would erase billions of dollars of medical debt from consumers’ credit reports, which...
