President’s Budget Includes Billions for Tribal Governments
President’s Budget Includes Billions for Tribal Governments Earlier this month, the Biden Administration released its FY2024 budget, which it said in a press release will “invest in America, lower costs and cut taxes for working families, and strengthen Medicare and...
House Financial Services Committee Holds Hearing on CFPB Reform
House Financial Services Committee Holds Hearing on CFPB Reform At a hearing last week, the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) discussed ways to either reform or defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as Republicans continued to criticize the...
Republican House Members Press Chopra on Credit Card Late Fees Proposal
Republican House Members Press Chopra on Credit Card Late Fees Proposal Last week, 17 Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee sent a letter to Rohit Chopra, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), concerning the CFPB’s credit...
White House Pushes States to Join Crackdown on “Junk Fees”
White House Pushes States to Join Crackdown on “Junk Fees” White House officials and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra recently urged states to join their effort to crack down on “junk fees” that the officials say are... CFPB Issues Report on Financial Profiles of Buy Now Pay Later Customers
CFPB Issues Report on Financial Profiles of Buy Now Pay Later Customers The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently published a report analyzing the financial profiles of buy now, pay later (BNPL) customers, finding that BNPL consumers were more likely to...
Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Have Less or No Savings Compared to One Year Ago
Nearly Half of U.S. Adults Have Less or No Savings Compared to One Year Ago A recent Bankrate report found that 49 percent of U.S. adults have either less or no emergency savings compared to a year ago, including 39 percent who have less savings than last year, and 10...
McHenry Introduces Data Privacy Legislation
McHenry Introduces Data Privacy Legislation Last week, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), introduced the Data Privacy Act of 2023, which is meant to modernize financial data privacy laws by requiring financial...
Supreme Court Opts to Hear CFPB Funding Case
Supreme Court Opts to Hear CFPB Funding Case On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its long-awaited decision to hear a landmark case in its next term, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) v. Community Financial Services Association of... 