Latest developments from the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), regulator of consumer protection actions among financial institutions and other organizations.
An Indiana real estate settlement services provider was ordered to pay up to $1.25 million and cease illegal practices of steering consumers to a title insurer owned by its executives, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]
Millions of American adults – more than two in every five – struggle to make ends meet, and more than one-third of all consumers reported experiencing material hardships in the past year, according to the […]
A modification in federal mortgage rules that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said is aimed at providing additional flexibility for lenders in collecting consumer ethnicity and race information was finalized and published Wednesday by […]
Former professional football players suffering from neurological disorders, victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster, 9/11 first responders and others awaiting payment from legal settlements were lied to by a New Jersey company in loan […]
A guide intended to be an easy-to-use summary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Arbitration Agreements rule — and to highlight information that may be helpful when implementing the rule — has been published […]
Alleging that student loan borrowers were illegally sued for private student loan debt that the companies which made the loans couldn’t prove was owed or was too old to sue over, the Consumer Financial Protection […]
Calling it a “first,” the CFPB has issued a “no-action” letter to a California company that evaluates loan applications using “alternative data” rather than traditional methods in the agency’s efforts to learn more about how […]
The recovery from the housing meltdown of 2007-10 has been “uneven and painful” for communities of color, and it may take generations to restore what was lost, the director of the CFPB said Tuesday. In […]
Banks, auto lenders, credit card companies, debt collectors, mortgage lenders, and more are singled out for “illegal practices” against consumers in a CFPB report summarizing the bureau’s recoveries in the first half of the year. […]
The threshold for collecting and reporting data about open-end lines of credit will increase for some financial institutions for a two-year period, beginning Jan. 1, according to a final rule scheduled to be published by […]
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