All CFPB articles – Page 9
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Snapping losing streak, CFPB gets constitutional nod from appeals court
Amid Republican led efforts to weaken its purview, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has prevailed against a legal challenge to the constitutionality.
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CFPB finalizes changes to prepaid accounts rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced finalized to its prepaid rule. Included in the changes is a year-long extension to the effective date.
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St. Thomas Moore’s influence on the recast CFPB
The reshaping of the CFPB at the hands of Acting Director Mick Mulvaney continued this week: In an “all hands” memo, Bureau employees were prepared for a philosophical readjustment.
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Dropbox, HSBC, and the CFPB
In case you missed it this week, Dropbox filed confidentially for an IPO, HSBC settles over money-laundering allegations, and the CFPB is giving loan-sharks some slack.
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CFPB’s new director backs away from ‘payday rule’
President Trump’s pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has initiated the first step toward delaying implementation of a controversial “payday rule” enacted in October.
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Was CFPB data collection freeze politically motivated?
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is demanding answers from Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, over his decision to freeze the collection of consumer data by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Fed plans transfer of consumer protection rules to CFPB
The Federal Reserve Board has announced the repeal of one regulation and revisions to another as part of an effort to transfer certain consumer protection rule-writing authority to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Justice Dept., AGs, protest ‘bureaucratic sleight-of-hand’ in CFPB battle
The legal battle over leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has escalated, with both the Department of Justice and a coalition of Republican attorneys general entering the fray.
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Court sides with Trump over who runs the CFPB
The battle for who is the rightful head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been settled—for the moment—by Judge Timothy Kelly.
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CFPB’s Cordray pleads with President Trump to spare arbitration ban
With President Trump likely to sign away the CFPB’s ban on mandatory arbitration clauses, Director Richard Cordray has lobbed the political equivalent of a Hail Mary pass: a direct, personal letter seeking reconsideration.
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Senate kills CFPB mandatory arbitration ban
With Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 vote tie, the Senate has quashed the CFPB’s controversial ban on the mandatory arbitration clauses widely used by financial services firms.
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CFPB outlines principles for consumer financial data sharing
The CFPB has outlined new “principles” for financial services firms when they aggregate consumer data and share it with third parties, even if those agreements facilitate services requested by customers.
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House bills target fiduciary rule, CFPB oversight, privacy notices, more
The Financial Services Committee has advanced a slate of 22 bills. Among the topics: data protections for the SEC's Consolidated Audit Trail, the thresholds for SIFI designations, supporting emerging growth companies, and killing the Department of Labor’s fiduciary duty rule.
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Acting comptroller thwarts CFPB, even as Dems question his authority
As the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency increasingly injects itself as a regulatory buffer between banks, financial services firms and the CFPB, Senate Democrats are questioning the legality and authority of Acting Comptroller Keith Noreika.
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CFPB finalizes its polarizing payday lending rule
Plunging itself into yet another industry-led political battle, the CFPB has finalized new payday lending rules. It will require that lenders determine upfront whether customers can afford repayment.
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Report: CFPB’s Wells Fargo fine was just 1 percent of potential penalty
The latest attack on the CFPB by Republican critics comes in an investigative report alleging that the Bureau fined Wells Fargo, following illegal account openings, a mere 1 percent of the penalty it was authorized to issue.
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Democrats leverage Equifax breach to defend CFPB's arbitration rule
A massive data breach at the credit rating service Equifax has gifted Democrats and other supporters of the CFPB's arbitration rule with fresh ammo.
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Department of Education, CFPB in turf war over student loans
The Department of Education has killed an information-sharing agreement with the CFPB that was intended to protect student loan borrowers. It called the Bureau “an overreaching and unaccountable agency.”
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Wells Fargo boosts number of unauthorized accounts to 3.5M
A review commissioned by Wells Fargo has increased the number of falsified accounts at the bank from 2.1 million to nearly 3.5 million. Last year, the CFPB fined the bank for the “widespread illegal practice of secretly opening unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts.”
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Hensarling: CFPB director speeding through rules to fuel political ambitions
Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is escalating attacks on CFPB Director Richard Cordray. In a letter this week, he accuses Cordray of rushing to finalize payday loan regulations to suit his political ambitions and a potential run for governor in Ohio.