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The CFPB and the two industry trade groups that filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final payday/auto title/high-rate installment loan rule (Payday Rule) filed a status report with the court on March 1.  The court directed the parties to file the status report by March 1 when, in November 2018 on its own initiative, it granted a stay of the Payday Rule’s August 19, 2019 compliance date and continued in force its stay of the lawsuit.… Continue Reading

Earlier today, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection released a Public Statement Regarding Payday Rule Reconsideration and Delay of Compliance Date. Echoing rumors that have been circulating in the industry for several weeks (which we had agreed not to address in our blog), the Statement reads in full as follows:

The Bureau expects to issue proposed rules in January 2019 that will reconsider the Bureau’s rule regarding Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans and address the rule’s compliance date.… Continue Reading

The Consumer Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) issued a statement in which it reported that documents it received from the CFPB in response to a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request filed on December 31, 2015 “reveal for the first time more than 12,000 positive testimonials that payday loan customers submitted to the [CFPB] as part of the Bureau’s “Tell Your Story” initiative.”… Continue Reading