On October 15 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., a meeting of the CFPB’s Community Bank Advisory Council will take place at the CFPB’s offices in Washington, DC. According to the agenda Brian Webster, Program Manager for the Office of Mortgage Markets, will discuss mortgages, and Gary Stein, Deposit Markets Program Manager and Jesse Leary, Section Chief of Consumer and Household Research, will discuss overdrafts.… Continue Reading

The CFPB moved closer to likely rulemaking on overdraft programs with the release late last week of a new report entitled “Data Point: Checking account overdraft.” 

The report is based on account-level and transaction-level data for about two million accounts at large banks covered by the CFPB’s supervisory authority (i.e.,Continue Reading