According to Dan Smith, president and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association, the CFPB’s potential data broker rule could lead to companies exiting the data business.

The bureau has accused South Carolina-based Heights Finance of targeting borrowers for their likelihood to refinance and using coercive practices to drive them into fee-laden refinancing cycles.

The firms, which include Lexington Law and CreditRepair.com, were accused of misrepresenting to consumers that an upfront fee was necessary to begin the credit repair process.

A New York court has rejected a motion to dismiss a CFPB lawsuit against a group of debt buyers for violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Supreme Court denies Republican AGs’ request to join oral arguments in CFPB funding case; CFPB seeks responses to student borrower survey.

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 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 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.