The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued an Alert “urging financial institutions to detect, prevent, and report suspicious activity connected to fraud schemes targeting student aid programs administered by the Federal government.” 

“Every dollar stolen from Federal student aid is a dollar taken from taxpayers and deserving students,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.… Continue Reading

President Trump is renewing his effort to oust Lisa D. Cook from the Federal Reserve Board.

In a letter to Cook, a Biden Administration nominee, Daniel Scavino, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, repeated allegations that Cook may have made false statements on one or more mortgage applications and stated that the President is considering removing her from her position as a result.… Continue Reading

Introduction

On July 31, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) published a joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing targeted amendments to their Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. The proposal, issued under Docket ID OCC-2026-0694, RIN 1557-AF57 (OCC) and RIN 3064-AG31 (FDIC), represents a significant pivot in the agencies’ approach to CRA modernization following years of litigation and regulatory uncertainty.… Continue Reading

On May 27, 2026, the National Fair Housing Alliance, Rise Economy, BLDS, LLC, and SolasAI filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s amendments to Regulation B, which implements the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). We discussed the lawsuit shortly after it was filed in our June 2, 2026 blog post linked above.… Continue Reading

On July 20, 2026, another California federal court denied class certification in a putative privacy class action involving a company’s cookie-based advertising platform. Lewis v. Magnite, Inc., 2:25-cv-03448-MWC-SSC (C.D. Cal. July 20, 2026). The plaintiffs alleged that Magnite secretly installed tracking cookies—called “khaos IDs”—on users’ browsers to collect data for targeted advertising.… Continue Reading

As previously reported, last year the Trump Administration filed a motion in the federal district court for the district of New Jersey to terminate the redlining consent order with Lakeland Bank that was entered into in September 2022 and provided for a five-year term. The redlining consent order was part of the Justice Department focus on redlining during the Biden Administration.… Continue Reading

David McGrath of HFSC Staff to be Guest on Webinar on August 24, 2026

The House Financial Services Committee has taken the next step in its effort to overhaul the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by inviting public comment on the discussion draft of the CFPB Reform Act of 2026.… Continue Reading

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken the next significant step toward revising its Section 1033 “open banking” regulation.

According to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the CFPB has submitted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) entitled Personal Financial Data Rights Reconsideration (Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act) for review under Executive Order 12866.… Continue Reading

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming consumer financial services. AI systems now influence decisions involving credit underwriting, fraud detection, customer service, pricing, marketing, and even personalized financial advice. While these technologies promise greater efficiency and innovation, they also raise profound questions about transparency, fairness, accountability, and consumer protection. 

In today’s episode of the award-winning Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast, our host, Alan Kaplinsky (founder, chair for 25 years and now Senior Counsel of the Consumer Financial Services Group at Ballard Spahr LLP) is joined by Delicia Hand, a nationally recognized expert on digital civil rights, AI governance, and consumer protection who leads AI policy initiatives at Consumer Reports.… Continue Reading

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would substantially revise its regulations governing the disclosure of non-public OCC information, including confidential supervisory information (CSI). The proposal proposes consequential changes to the way banks, their affiliates, counterparties, regulators, and the public may obtain and use supervisory information and if adopted would provide for a framework for the protection and sharing of confidential supervisory information distinct from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.… Continue Reading