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Yesterday’s hearing on the CFPB held by the House Financial Services Committee highlighted the continuing partisan divide over the CFPB’s implementation of its consumer protection mission but with Democratic and Republican committee members switching roles from those taken at the hearings at which former Director Cordray appeared.  While Republicans took on the role of CFPB Director Kraninger’s champions, Democrats assumed the role of her critics.… Continue Reading

The House Financial Services Committee has updated its website to confirm that CFPB Director Kraninger is scheduled to appear at the Committee’s hearing tomorrow entitled “Putting Consumers First? A Semi-Annual Review of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”

The update also indicates that Director Kraninger’s appearance will be followed by a panel consisting of the following individuals:

  • Hilary Shelton, Director & Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Linda Jun, Senior Policy Counsel, Americans for Financial Reform
  • Jennifer Davis, Government Relations Deputy Director, National Military Family Association
  • Seth Frotman, Executive Director, Student Borrower Protection Center
  • Scott Weltman, Managing Shareholder, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co.,
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The Senate Banking Committee has announced that it will hold a hearing on March 12, 2019 entitled “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress” at which CFPB Director Kraninger is scheduled to appear.

Director Kraninger is also expected to appear at the hearing of the House Financial Services Committee scheduled for March 7, 2019 entitled “Putting Consumers First?… Continue Reading

The pendency of three cases in circuit courts challenging the CFPB’s constitutionality has given rise to speculation as to whether the CFPB will continue to defend its constitutionality under Director Kraninger’s leadership.  The CFPB continued to defend its constitutionality in these cases while under former Acting Director Mulvaney’s leadership.  It did so, however, as a fallback to its primary argument that because Mr.… Continue Reading

According to an American Banker report, CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger recently sent an email to CFPB staff that provides a window into what her approach to running the CFPB will be.

The report quotes Ms. Kraninger as having said in the email that the CFPB must do its work “with an open mind and without presumptions of guilt, and to always carefully weigh the costs and benefits to consumers of our enforcement activities and regulatory rulemakings.” … Continue Reading

Seventy-four organizations that describe themselves as “consumer, community, civil rights, faith, labor and legal services groups” have sent a letter to CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger to “reiterate our concerns about widespread debt collection abuses that we have raised in the past and the ongoing need for better protection against these abuses.”… Continue Reading

CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger has sent an email to CFPB employees informing them of her decision to halt “all ongoing efforts to make changes to existing products and materials related to the name correction initiative.”  That initiative was initiated by former Acting Director Mulvaney.  Under his leadership, the Bureau began using “Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection” as its name, together with the acronym “BCFP,”  instead of, respectively, “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” and “CFPB.”… Continue Reading

Despite agreeing on the merits with State National Bank of Big Spring (SNB) and the other petitioners for certiorari that the CFPB’s structure is unconstitutional, the Department of Justice has filed a brief in which it argues that the U.S. Supreme Court should deny the petition.  (The other petitioners are two D.C.… Continue Reading

The CFPB has issued a new annual report covering its fair lending activities during 2017.  Since Mick Mulvaney did not become Acting Director until the end of November 2017, the fair lending activities described in the report largely took place under former Director Cordray’s leadership.

The Bureau’s last annual fair lending report under former Director Cordray (which covered its fair lending activities in 2016) identified the Bureau’s 2017 fair lending priorities. … Continue Reading