Jun 13, 2024 | Congressional Legislation, Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Director Chopra Testifies Before Senate Banking, House Financial Services Committees This week, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra testified before both the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the House...
Jun 11, 2024 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Finalizes Rule to Create “Repeat Offender” Registry Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule that will establish a registry to track people and companies that have repeatedly broken consumer protection laws. Non-bank...
Jun 5, 2024 | Financial Literacy, News
Younger Consumers Struggling to Pay Credit Card Debts A recent report on first quarter household debt by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found the share of credit card debt over 90 days past due rose to 10.7 percent in the first quarter, which is a 14-year high....
May 30, 2024 | Federal Regulation, FinTech, News
CFPB Proposes Regulating BNPL Loans Like Credit Cards Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule that considers Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) lenders to be credit card providers. The Bureau says that the move is meant to protect...
May 28, 2024 | Federal Regulation, News
Amid Scandal, Gruenberg Announces Plans to Resign Once Successor is Approved Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) Chairman Martin Gruenberg announced last week that he plans to step down after the Special Review Committee’s recent report detailing sexual harassment,...
May 22, 2024 | Federal Regulation, News
CFPB Director Chopra Says Agency “Will Be Firing on All Cylinders” after SCOTUS Ruling After years of uncertainty regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s legal status as a pending lawsuit made its way through the legal system, the...
May 16, 2024 | Federal Regulation, Litigation, News
Supreme Court Issues Long-Awaited CFPB Ruling, Rejecting Challenge and Affirming Constitutionality of Funding Mechanism Earlier today, the Supreme Court handed down its 7-2 decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services of America, a...
May 14, 2024 | Federal Regulation, News
FDIC Special Review Committee Releases Scathing Independent Report on Workplace Misconduct and Culture Last week, the FDIC released the report from the independent third-party review, led by the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, into allegations of...
May 8, 2024 | Banks & Credit Unions, News
Federal Reserve Survey of Lending Officers Finds U.S. Banks Reported Stricter Credit Standards in Q1 2024 According to the Federal Reserve’s “April 2024 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices,” released on Monday, many banks tightened their...
May 2, 2024 | Federal Regulation, News
Consumers Pay More for Products With More Complex Pricing Structures, CFPB Finds In a new report, prepared as part of the Biden Administration’s junk fee initiative, the CFPB found that consumers tend to pay more for products with more complex pricing structures. The...
