A New York state court has stayed proceedings in an enforcement action brought by the CFPB against a subprime indirect auto finance firm, pending the Supreme Court’s decision in the bureau’s funding case.

Credit union and community bank trade groups have joined a lawsuit in a Texas district court, seeking a nationwide injunction against implementation of the CFPB’s small business lending data collection rule.

The Seventh Circuit ruled that harms suffered by Cook County, IL, as a result of BofA’s lending practices were not proximate enough to the alleged injurious behavior to count as violations of the Fair Housing Act.

The bureau wants to recategorize brokers selling certain types of consumer data as “consumer reporting agencies” and restrict the extent to which “credit header data” can be released.

A broad coalition of trade groups raised concerns that the proposal would lead to frivolous lawsuits and potential consumer harm.

The CFPB said several nonbanks that have come under its oversight following a procedural rule issued in November 2022 are cooperating with the agency to iron out compliance problems before it’s too late.

The temporary injunction halting the implementation of the Section 1071 final rule applies only to members of the American Bankers Association and the Texas Bankers Association.

A CFPB proposal to set ability-to-repay requirements for PACE lending has support from mortgage lenders. However, PACE lenders and eight Republican state attorneys general have warned the proposal would lead to the end of PACE lending.

A recent Senate subcommittee hearing on the CFPB’s efforts to rein in junk fees was deeply divided along partisan lines. Also, a former CFPB deputy director panned the administration’s work around junk fees.

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