JURIST

OCTOBER 23, 2021

DoJ will also work with other agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), to identify and refer fair lending violations.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

“Supreme Court to Take Up Case on Fate of Consumer Watchdog; A decision against the bureau could cast doubt on every rule and enforcement action the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“Supreme Court Skeptical of Argument That Could Hobble Consumer Watchdog; The justices heard a challenge to the way Congress funded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but seemed persuaded that it was constitutional”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G.

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Diane Drain

MARCH 8, 2021

With Protections Expiring, Millions are in Danger of Losing Their Home. What happens to homeowners and landlords when the federal, state, and local protections put in place during the pandemic go away? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is warning that the answer is hanging in the balance. .

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Law 360

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told consumer reporting agencies Thursday that they must take steps to address errors in background check reports and prevent "sloppy" credit file-sharing practices, which are hurting consumers.

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MAY 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court held Thursday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ( CFPB ) funding does not violate the Appropriations Clause and is constitutionally valid, in a decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas. ” For most agencies, this funding comes through the yearly Congressional budget.

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Law 360

APRIL 13, 2022

Major consumer finance industry groups are sounding an alarm about what they see as a power grab at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that risks exacerbating the agency's home-field advantage in its in-house enforcement proceedings.

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LegalReader

MARCH 11, 2021

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has said it will enforce a federal band on lenders who discriminate against applicants on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. In an official statement, the agency explained that it has interpreted the Equal Credit.

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Diane Drain

JULY 29, 2021

July 28, 2021: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released an online tool to help renters and landlords impacted by the pandemic easily find and apply for payment assistance for rent, utilities and other expenses. COVID Has Exposed Many of Our Neighbors to an Ugly Financial Reality. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Law 360

MAY 22, 2024

A four-justice concurrence to the U.S.

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Diane Drain

MARCH 22, 2021

Report highlights commitment to protect consumers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the 2020 annual report to Congress on the administration of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The CFPB resolved two of these cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of the structure used to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency tasked with enforcing consumer finance laws. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Law 360

MARCH 24, 2023

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's newly launched inquiry into companies that compile and sell personal data is raising questions about where the agency might be headed with plans to write new rules under a decades-old law on credit reporting.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Share In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. The agency stopped the monitoring in 2023 because of a lack of funding.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

For the second time in just over three years, the Supreme Court may determine the future of the federal watchdog agency that seeks to protect consumers in the financial sector. the CFPB was established by Congress in the wake of the Great Recession as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

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Law 360

MAY 6, 2025

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's lawsuit accusing it of mishandling consumer credit reporting disputes as a California federal judge on Monday tossed some but not all of the bureau's claims against the credit reporting agency. Experian must continue facing the U.S.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Predatory financial practices are embedded in the criminal justice system, according to a report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFRB). The agency’s mandate includes oversight and enforcement of consumer protection laws and investigation of “abusive financial practices.”.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Two more Consumer Financial Protection Bureau litigators are leaving the agency as it faces uncertainty due to the new presidential administration, including an attorney who has been with the agency since its creation in 2011.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 23, 2022

Never give out your financial information to anyone (even family), unless you initiated the contact, and they need that information in order to complete a process you requested. Even if you know them, why do they need to have your financial information? If there is a call from a government agency, pause and question.

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Law 360

MAY 6, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday that it will not prioritize enforcement actions taken on buy now, pay later products, adding to the list of positions the agency is reviewing or rolling back under the organization's new leadership.

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Law 360

MARCH 26, 2025

Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee sought Wednesday to boost legislation aimed at reining in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, proposals that Democrats slammed as out of touch when the agency is already facing evisceration.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered JPay, a Florida-based company owned by the private equity firm Platinum Equity Partners, and a leading prison banker, to pay $6 million for siphoning off taxpayer-funded benefits and forcing recently incarcerated individuals to pay hidden fees, reports the Washington Post.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved Friday to revise a longstanding remittance disclosure requirement, saying the agency thinks the wording may be causing it to get inundated with thousands of phone calls from consumers asking about their international money transfers.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's de facto shutdown following the arrival of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is raising concerns that sensitive data inside the agency could be exposed or exploited. Experts say financial institutions should take note.

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

Patrice Ficklin, the longtime top fair lending official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is leaving the agency later this month after more than a decade leading its efforts to oversee the financial industry's compliance with federal laws banning credit discrimination.

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Law 360

APRIL 17, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's acting Director Russell Vought moved Thursday to resume mass firings at the agency, prompting a scramble from its employee union to head off a torrent of pink slips terminating the vast majority of the agency's workforce.

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Law 360

AUGUST 7, 2024

The federal government on Wednesday stepped up efforts to police shady solar energy sales and financing practices, with the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other agencies releasing consumer advisories and announcing a new partnership to better monitor the industry.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra on Wednesday promoted his agency's new open banking rule to a fintech audience amid stiff opposition from banks, saying "incumbents" can't be allowed to box out the competition that expanded financial data-sharing will enable.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2025

Recent batches of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau internal emails hint at early, fumbling efforts to bring parts of the agency back online, but whether these flickers of life will undercut an employee union's fight to keep the agency intact remains to be seen.

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Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and six other regulators are crafting joint standards required by bipartisan legislation aiming to modernize the collection and publication of those agencies' financial data, the SEC announced Friday.

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Law 360

MARCH 6, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's purge of its enforcement docket continued Thursday as the agency dropped a predatory lending lawsuit against Acima, a fintech lease-to-own company and affiliate of Rent-A-Center.

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Law 360

JUNE 4, 2024

The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee released a spending bill Tuesday that threatens to cut funding for financial service agencies and prevent the U.S.

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Law 360

JUNE 4, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday asked a Kentucky federal judge to stay an industry lawsuit challenging the agency's small-business lender reporting requirements, saying a largely identical challenge filed earlier in Texas should take precedence.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday called for abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, writing on his social media platform X — formerly known as Twitter — that the government should "Delete CFPB" and "there are too many duplicative regulatory agencies."

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Law 360

MARCH 11, 2025

A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee recounted before a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday a frantic effort to fire 1,200 agency staffers before a court order halted it, saying the prospect of first securing congressional approval was never mentioned.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Nearly two dozen attorneys general on Friday filed an amicus brief backing the union that represents Consumer Financial Protection Bureau workers in their lawsuit over the agency's shutdown, arguing they will suffer "several forms of irreparable harm" without a preliminary injunction.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that its acting director will review and could rescind the agency's recent order subjecting Google's payment arm to supervision, securing a pause of the tech giant's lawsuit against the order.

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