Financial services firms under the supervision of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be pleased to hear about a new policy change, announced April 23, in which the CFPB said it will start to provide more information about potentially wrongful conduct during investigations, effectively giving banks and lenders a better understanding of what wrongful conduct prompted the agency’s scrutiny.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...