The bureau is focusing its efforts on tackling digital redlining, reining in repeat offenders and identifying emerging risks, according to the bureau’s fair lending director.

The bureau’s special supervisory highlights report cites instances of university-owned lenders withholding academic transcripts to coerce borrowers into making payments.

The Center for Responsible Lending and Consumer Bankers Association have jointly requested rulemaking on personal lending, while the National Consumer Law Center wants rulemaking to prohibit the listing of medical debt on credit reports.

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra has directed bureau staff to look into possible rules for buy now, pay later products in five areas.

The CFPB said the company hadn’t met any of its self-imposed deadlines to provide information regarding how it handles consumer disputes. Block operates popular peer-to-peer payments service Cash App.

The CFPB is looking to hire roughly 25 tech-savvy employees to aid in supervision and enforcement. The positions to be filled range from data scientists to user experience designers.

The consumer watchdog is considering making nonbank financial institutions “register” with the agency. Details? Not many.

The government watchdog has called on the Comptroller of the Currency to revamp some of its redlining examination tools. Specifically, OCC should give time frames for a planned information repository and update its procedures to account for new statistical analysis techniques.

The recent changes to the CFPB’s supervision manual that brought discriminatory conduct under its “unfairness” standard are unlawful, a coalition of banking trade groups argued in a new white paper.

The share of borrowers exiting relief in delinquent status is increasing, according to the bureau’s latest report on mortgage servicers’ response to the pandemic.