The update, the first in nine years, broadens the pool of CFPB officials eligible to evaluate appeals, the options for resolving appeals and the matters subject to appeals.

The CFPB has a goal to close 65% of its enforcement investigations within two years of the start of an investigation. The agency has been nowhere near that goal in recent years.

The CFPB estimated that its proposal to establish oversight of payments providers would apply to 17 companies. Companies subject to the proposal are seeking exemptions while consumer advocates called for more expansive protections.

A coalition of state attorneys general filed letters to the CFPB and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency noting that banks frequently refuse to cooperate with states’ enforcement investigations.

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Federal regulators discussed best practices for lenders’ redlining analysis to head off regulatory risk. Separately, Navy Federal Credit Union faces mortgage lending discrimination allegations.

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra was accused of partisan regulatory management by Republican lawmakers during recent congressional hearings. But the bureau’s proposed personal financial data rights rule found praise.

While it will take time for banking agencies to issue guidance and create tools facilitating compliance with the newly finalized Community Reinvestment Act rule, banks should get the ball rolling at their end, attorneys said.

Attorney Chris Willis of Troutman Pepper said lenders may still be able to narrowly tailor the use of immigration status in credit decisions while staying compliant with recent guidance from the CFPB and DOJ.

A CFPB working paper found that lender-identified race and ethnicity data on mortgage applications more closely correlates with the probability an individual is of a given race than applications with self-identified race information. The largest differences were for Hispanic and Black applicants.