For years many industry participants wondered if allowing their real estate agents or loan officers to engage in co-marketing on Zillow Group applications and websites posed a risk to their companies under RESPA.  The industry may soon know the answer, as Zillow Group advised in recent prepared remarks on first quarter earnings that “Over the past two years, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has been reviewing our program for compliance with the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, or RESPA, which is a regulation designed to protect consumers.”… Continue Reading

The Office of Inspector General for the Fed and CFPB recently issued an audit report entitled “The CFPB Can Strengthen Contract Award Controls and Administrative Processes.”  The objective of the OIG’s audit was to assess the CFPB’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations and CFPB policies and procedures related to contract solicitation, selection and award processes, as well as the effectiveness of the CFPB’s associated internal controls.… Continue Reading

The D. C. Circuit has affirmed the D.C. federal district court’s April 2016 denial of the CFPB’s petition to enforce a CID issued to the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) in August 2015.

After denying ACICS’s petition to modify or set aside the CID in October 2015, the CFPB filed a petition in D.C.… Continue Reading

Last week, the D. C. Circuit held oral argument in the CFPB’s appeal from the D.C. federal district court’s April 2016 ruling that the CFPB exceeded its statutory authority when it issued a CID to the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) in August 2015.

After denying ACICS’s petition to modify or set aside the CID in October 2015, the CFPB filed a petition in D.C.… Continue Reading

The D.C. federal district court has ruled that the CFPB exceeded its statutory authority when it issued a CID to the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) in August 2015.

ACICS’s petition to modify or set aside the CID was denied by the CFPB on October 8, 2015, and the CFPB thereafter filed a petition in D.C.… Continue Reading

Director Cordray is reported to have defended the CFPB’s authority to investigate a college accrediting organization at a recent Politico event.

On October 8, 2015, the CFPB issued a decision and order denying the petition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) to modify or set aside the CID issued by the CFPB. … Continue Reading

The CFPB has denied the petition of a lead generation company and its employee to modify or set aside a civil investigative demand (CID).  As we reported, among the petitioners’ arguments for why the CID should be set aside was that the company is neither a “service provider” nor “covered person.” … Continue Reading