A Washington, DC, appellate court recently overturned a Federal Communications Commission ruling that restricted the use of “autodialers,” including cell phones, to communicate with consumers.

The Senate bill to roll back various parts of the Dodd-Frank Act has been stalled in the House, where leading Republicans have asked for additional provisions that would further relax regulations.

An appeals court ruling this month against Bank of America regarding compliance with a state law on escrow accounts has broad implications for banks that rely on federal preemption of state laws, according to industry attorneys.

“On previous occasions when the bureau has issued guidance, its value has been negated by disclaimers making the guidance non-binding on the bureau,” the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

The 4,710 small mortgage lenders wouldn’t have to report new data points sought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for originations in 2018 and beyond, according to an analysis by Inside the CFPB.

The Senate voted 67-31 last week to pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2155, moving the deregulation debate to the House, which will look for more aggressive changes to roll back the Dodd-Frank Act. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-TX, said the House would not pass the bill without additional provisions that would further relax regulations introduced after the 2008 financial crisis ...

Proposed changes to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act have become a key flashpoint of controversy in the advancing effort to reform the Dodd-Frank Act. The Senate last week passed legislation that would exempt depository institutions that have relatively small mortgage operations from new HMDA disclosure requirements – and some existing ones – that were mandated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The expanded HMDA reporting regime is taking effect for mortgage (include one data chart) ...

A bill to replace the CFPB director with a bipartisan commission was introduced to the House of Representatives last week.The Financial Product Safety Commission Act of 2018, H.R. 5266, was introduced by Rep. Dennis Ross, R-FL, and its co-sponsors include two Democratic House members. The bill would change the CFPB’s name to the “Financial Product Safety Commission.” The proposal would create a five-member commission, whose members are appointed by the president ...

Former World Acceptance Corp. CEO Janet Lewis Matricciani said she wants to apply for the position of CFPB director in an email to Acting Director Mick Mulvaney. The email was sent on January 24, two days before Matricciani left the company, and she said she wants to run the agency because no one’s better able than her to “understand the need to treat consumers respectfully and honestly, and the equal need to offer credit to lower income consumers.” Just two days before ...

The CFPB recently issued a final rule that the agency said would help mortgage servicers communicate with borrowers facing bankruptcy. The rule amended the timing requirements for servicers to provide periodic statements to consumers in bankruptcy. The rule will go into effect on April 19. At that point, servicers will be required to send monthly billing statements to consumers in active bankruptcy cases and certain cases in which the debtor’s personal liability was previously discharged. To give ...