The CFPB is expected to limit the use of disparate-impact analysis under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, as the agency intends to rewrite the ECOA rule, according to attorneys tracking the issue.

The CFPB will focus its rulemaking efforts on implementing directives from the Dodd-Frank reform act over the next 12 months, according to the agency’s latest rulemaking agenda.

The CFPB recently settled with a Tennessee-based payday lender for debt-collection practices, finding some of its activities were “abusive.”

A dozen state attorneys general asked the CFPB to withdraw or make substantial modifications to its proposed trial disclosure program.

The CFPB recently updated its Spanish glossary of common financial terms in order to help borrowers who do not have a command of English.

A collection of industry and consumer advocacy groups jointly urged the CFPB to expeditiously start rulemaking to expand ability-to-repay requirements to Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans.

The CFPB said it will focus on ability-to-repay provisions as it tries to overhaul its controversial rule on payday, title and high-cost installment lending.

Mortgage-related consumer complaints filed with the CFPB continued to plunge in the third quarter, according to a new Inside the CFPB analysis. [Includes one data chart.]

Democrats on Capitol Hill and state attorneys general are continuing their campaign to get the CFPB to enforce the Military Lending Act.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are questioning the logic behind a recent federal court ruling that appears to give investors in the government-sponsored enterprises’ stock a glimmer of hope in their legal battles with the federal government.