On August 8, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued four advance notices of proposed rulemaking (“ANPR”) inviting comments on whether it should substantially reduce the number of nonbank companies the CFPB supervises in the auto finance, international money transfer, debt collection, and consumer credit reporting markets. An agency spokesperson told Law 360, “As part of President Trump’s overhaul of this abusive agency, ‘Larger Participant’ regulations are open for re-examining after more than a decade.… Continue Reading
Aja D. Finger
AI in the Financial Services Industry
The recent American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators Annual Conference included a presentation highlighting the rising use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the Financial Services industry. As this will clearly be an ongoing focus of all regulators, not just residential mortgage regulators, we thought a short summary of the presentation, and some or our reactions to the presentation, might be of interest.… Continue Reading
Regulatory Requirements Related to Adverse Action Notifications
As part of the Federal Reserve Board’s Outlook Live Webinar series, on July 17, 2025, examiners from the Minneapolis and Chicago Federal Reserve Banks hosted a webinar to discuss the regulatory requirements related to adverse action notifications under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), as implemented by Regulation B, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).… Continue Reading