A top official at the CFPB rejected industry claims that the bureau has backed off of rulemaking and amped up its enforcement activity in the wake of the 2016 elections. Speaking during a regulatory panel at the 2017 American Bankers Association’s regulatory compliance conference in Orlando last month, Virginia O’Neill, senior vice president for the ABA’s Center for Regulatory Compliance, said, “There seems to have been a pause in rulemaking. Yet at the same time, it feels like there’s an uptick in enforcement. It’s concerning to everybody out there.” Christopher D’Angelo, associate director of supervision, enforcement and fair lending at the bureau, disputed that perception. “There’s been a lot of chatter lately about this idea that somehow our enforcement activity ...