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Increasing regulatory, competitive and economic challenges are causing a new focus on credit cards by medium and smaller-sized financial institutions.  We are joined by Robert Curry, Managing Partner and Chief Business Officer of Bassett Capital Group, LLC, an expert on credit card portfolio management, acquisition and divestiture, for a discussion of the types of business…

The CFPB has released its eighth annual report to Congress on college credit card agreements.  The annual report is mandated by the CARD Act.  (The first two reports were issued by the Federal Reserve Board.)

The CARD Act requires mandatory reporting to the CFPB by card issuers on agreements with institutions of higher learning or…

The CFPB’s newly-released Summer 2018 edition of Supervisory Highlights represents the CFPB’s first Supervisory Highlights report covering supervisory activities conducted under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s leadership.  The Bureau’s most recent prior Supervisory Highlights report was its Summer 2017 edition, which was issued in September 2017.

On October 10, 2018, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.…

The Military Lending Act (MLA) will apply to credit card accounts starting Tuesday, October 3. The final rule took effect last October but provided a one-year exemption for “credit extended in a credit card account under an open-end (not home-secured) consumer credit plan.” Although the final rule permits the Secretary of Defense to extend the…

The CFPB announced that it sent letters to “top retail credit card companies” encouraging them to use zero-interest promotions instead of deferred-interest promotions.  The CFPB also provided a sample letter and published a new blog on its website for consumers to explain how deferred-interest and zero interest promotions operate and the key differences between them.…

The CFPB has issued another request for information about the credit card market that identifies significant new issues of CFPB interest.  The request is intended to inform the CFPB’s biennial review of the credit card market mandated by the CARD Act.  Based on its previous biennial reviews, the CFPB issued its first and second reports…

The CFPB has issued its July 2016 complaint report which highlights complaints about credit cards and complaints from consumers in Washington and the Seattle metro area.  The CFPB began taking credit card complaints on July 21, 2011, the day on which the CFPB officially opened its doors for business.  In its first and second biennial…

The CFPB has issued its October 2015 complaint report, the fourth in its new series of monthly complaint reports.  The new report highlights credit card complaints and complaints from consumers in the Chicago, Illinois metro area.

General findings include the following:

  • As of October 1, 2015, the CFPB handled approximately 726,000 complaints nationally, including

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