The CFPB is calling upon financial institutions to submit a self-assessment of their diversity and inclusion activities, according to the law firm Ballard Spahr.
In a letter to CFPB staff recently, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, urged employees to blow the whistle on agency leaders.
The CFPB has sought insight and opinion from market participants on origination and underwriting processes for Property Assessed Clean Energy financing as it prepares to under-take rulemaking.
The CFPB should open up a policy discussion about a tiered supervision structure of smaller independent mortgage banks, according to industry trade groups.
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.
CFPB Releases Small Entity Compliance Guide for Payday Rule; CFPB Updates List of Rural and Under-served Counties; CFPB Seeks Assistant Director for the Office of Regulations.
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.