Mar 12, 2019 | Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → Following a contentious hearing with the House Financial Services Committee last week, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger testified before the Senate Banking Committee this morning in a...
Mar 11, 2019 | Congressional Legislation, Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) recently introduced the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act, a bill that would require small-dollar lenders to register with the...
Mar 9, 2019 | Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger made her first appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday, March 7 at a hearing entitled, “Putting Consumers First? A Semi-Annual...
Mar 2, 2019 | Federal Regulation, Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has filed a lawsuit seeking to enforce a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) against the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, (LOCM) a debt collection law firm. It is the first CFPB...
Feb 28, 2019 | Congressional Legislation, Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → At a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, February 26, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA-43), chairwoman of the Committee, openly questioned whether the credit reporting sector “is so beyond repair that we...
Feb 26, 2019 | Congressional Legislation, Federal Regulation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → There are nine ways that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) can reduce the risk of regulatory capture, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The OCC, led by the Comptroller of the Currency...
