Though it believes the CFPB’s leadership structure is unconstitutional, the Department of Justice in a new reply brief urged the Supreme Court to preserve the bureau for its “critical work.”
The CFPB’s latest supervisory highlight report red flags mortgage servicing violations, where firms failed to provide loss-mitigation notices in time after natural disasters.
Brian Johnson, deputy director at the CFPB, has left the agency for a position at law firm Alston & Bird. His departure brings the tally of political appointees leaving the bureau to four.
A court settlement has forced the CFPB to outline proposed rulemaking on data collection requirements in the small-business lending space no later than September.
CRA proposal comment period extended; enforcement against brokers charging high interest rates; CFPB advisory committee meetings; New York mortgage-related complaints; new servicing requirements.
During a congressional oversight hearing, House Financial Services Committee members grilled CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger on the bureau’s interpretation of the abusiveness standard, plans to reform the qualified-mortgage rule and the controversial RESPA bulletin.