CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger faced criticism from Democrats on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs about recent bureau activities related to fair lending sanctions, the Military Lending Act examination and the new payday lending rule proposal.
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The CFPB last month filed its first lawsuit under the leadership of Kathy Kraninger. Interestingly, the lawsuit seeks to enforce a 2017 civil investigative demand that was issued under former Director Richard Cordray.
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.
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