The Appraisal Foundation plans to revise ethics rule draft; CashCall faces $169 million in restitution and fines; companies not reporting credit card payment data; public benefits programs subject to fees; CFPB, FTC seek input on tenant background checks; DOJ redlining settlement.
An appeals court agreed with the CFPB’s argument that its pre-paid rule doesn’t impose mandatory model clauses. Instead, it provides companies the option to use model language or other “substantially similar” wording.
The Community Home Lenders of America wants small mortgage lenders to be exempt from the CFPB’s proposed registry of nonbank form contracts when their compliance burdens substantially outweigh consumer benefit.
The CFPB proposal includes lowering the safe-harbor late fees companies can charge consumers and seeks to eliminate automatic annual inflation adjustment of the safe harbor.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded a district court order that sided with the CFPB over mortgage payment company Nationwide Biweekly Administration.
The bureau seeks to weed out one-sided terms and conditions included in contracts that consumers sign when purchasing a product or signing up for a service from a nonbank. House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry, R-NC, slammed the proposal.
Complaints filed with the CFPB by military personnel about identity theft have increased from 234 in 2014 to 1,124 in 2022. Steady income and frequent relocation make servicemembers easy targets.
Electronic Fund Transfer Act protections apply to prepaid card accounts loaded with government benefits, according to an amicus brief filed by the CFPB in a lawsuit against Bank of America.
COO held liable for fraud scheme; companies offering negative option subscriptions on alert; NY law firm settles with CFPB; court says CFPB enforcement authority extends to scholarship assistance marketing.
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