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By a vote of 239-185, the House of Representatives has approved a fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill that contains various provisions intended to curb the CFPB’s authority.  Those provisions would fund the CFPB through the annual congressional appropriations process rather than through transfers from the Federal Reserve as currently provided by Dodd-Frank and change the CFPB’s leadership structure from a single Director to a five-member Board of Directors appointed by the President.… Continue Reading

The House Appropriations Committee has approved by a vote of 30-17 the FY17 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill.  The Committee also adopted a bipartisan amendment to the bill that would block the CFPB from finalizing or enforcing a rule regulating payday lending until the CFPB submits a detailed report on the consumer impact to Congress and identifies existing credit products available to replace the current sources of short-term, small dollar credit. … Continue Reading

The fiscal year 2017 appropriations bill approved last week by the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee includes the following provisions intended to curb the CFPB’s authority:

  • A provision under which, effective October 1, 2017,  the CFPB would be funded pursuant to the annual congressional appropriations process rather than through transfers from the Federal Reserve as currently provided by Dodd-Frank. 
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With the publication of the CFPB’s proposed arbitration rule in today’s Federal Register, the 90-day comment period is now running.  Comments on the proposal must be received on or before Monday, August 22, 2016.

The proposed rule would prohibit covered providers of certain consumer financial products and services from using an agreement with a consumer that provides for arbitration of any future dispute between the parties to bar the consumer from filing or participating in a class action with respect to the covered consumer financial product or service. … Continue Reading

The CFPB has released its Spring 2016 rulemaking agenda.  The agenda sets the following timetables for key rulemaking initiatives: 

Arbitration.  The Spring 2016 agenda does not reflect the CFPB’s release of its proposed arbitration rule on May 5, 2016, stating only that the CFPB “is preparing to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking this spring.” … Continue Reading

A recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal is a “must read” for those who will be affected if the CFPB’s May 5, 2016 proposed rule banning class action waivers in consumer financial services arbitration agreements becomes final. The editorial predicts that the proposed rule will encourage more class actions to be filed against financial services companies, that consumers will be shortchanged by the loss of arbitration, and that the only winners will be the trial lawyers who reap enormous financial benefits from class action settlements.… Continue Reading

On Wednesday May 18, 2016, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit held a hearing entitled “Examining the CFPB’s Proposed Rulemaking on Arbitration: Is it in the Public Interest and for the Protection of Consumers?”

The Committee questioned the panel members on whether the CFPB’s proposed rule meets the mandate of Section 1028 of the Dodd-Frank Act.… Continue Reading

In a new blog post, the CFPB promotes its “Ask CFPB” website feature as “a source of clear, impartial answers to hundreds of financial questions.”

We agree that the feature can be a source of potentially helpful information for consumers on a wide range of topics such as bank accounts, credit reports and scores, debt collection, student loans, and mortgages. … Continue Reading

On May 18, 2016, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit will hold a hearing entitled “Examining the CFPB’s Proposed Rulemaking on Arbitration: Is it in the Public Interest and for the Protection of Consumers?”

On May 5, 2016, the CFPB issued a proposed rule that would prohibit covered providers of certain consumer financial products and services from using pre-dispute arbitration agreements that contain a class action waiver. … Continue Reading

On April 20, 2016, Congressman Sean Duffy sent a letter to Director Cordray indicating that the House Financial Services Committee is investigating “the examination and possible regulation by the [CFPB] of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in contracts for consumer financial products and services.”  Now that the CFPB has formally released its proposed arbitration rule banning the use of class action waivers, that investigation is likely to intensify.… Continue Reading