Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee in a hearing last week rebutted a proposed bill undoing changes made by former CFPB acting Director Mick Mulvaney.

Kathy Kraninger, now into her fourth month as CFPB director, seems to have adopted an industry-friendly approach at the agency, but she’s being less dramatic than her predecessor Mick Mulvaney.

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The CFPB intends to bring an enforcement action against Equifax over the massive data breach in 2017 that exposed personal information of more than 140 million people, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The CFPB and Florida regulators last week asked a federal court to merge their lawsuits against mortgage servicer Ocwen Financial Corp. in order to avoid the risk of future jury inconsistency and to reduce their respective burden.

The payday lending rule proposal released early this month has sparked different reactions from CFPB watchers.

In a rather unusual move, the CFPB earlier this month released written guidance to clarify certain aspects of the integrated mortgage dis-closure rule. This left many industry watchers looking at clues as to whether it signals a change in the agency’s attitude towards written guidance.

The CFPB plans to save $20 million in spending in fiscal 2019, with major budget cuts in its supervision, enforcement and fair lending division.

Democratic lawmakers recently introduced a bill to both chambers of Congress to repeal the partial exemption granted last year to smaller institutions from certain mortgage reporting requirements.

The CFPB appears to have shifted away from addressing lending discrimination via enforcement actions, according to the bureau’s first semi-annual report to Congress under Director Kathy Kraninger. The report covers bureau activities from April 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2018.