Today’s episode features Part 2 of our November 4 webinar, “The CFPB’s Most Ambitious Regulatory Agenda Ever.” (Part 1 of this series was released on December 18. We encourage you to listen to that episode as well). In Part 2, we continue to unpack the far-reaching implications of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) regulatory ambitions.… Continue Reading
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CFPB Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda – Prerule Stage – Identity Theft and Coerced Debt (Regulation V)
The CFPB is considering proposing amendments to Regulation V, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), to address concerns related to information furnished to consumer reporting agencies regarding coerced debt. This follows the CFPB’s issuance of an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on December 13, 2024 to solicit information on amending the definitions of “identity theft” and “identity theft report,” as well as other related amendments to Regulation V.… Continue Reading
Today’s podcast episode: The Impact of the Newly Established Priorities and Massive Proposed Reduction in Force (RIF) on CFPB Supervision
Our podcast show being released today features two former CFPB senior officers who were key employees in the Supervision Division under prior directors: Peggy Twohig and Paul Sanford. Peggy was a founding executive of the CFPB when the agency was created in 2010 and led the development of the first federal supervision program over nonbank consumer financial companies.… Continue Reading
Today’s podcast episode: Everything You Want to Know About the CFPB as Things Stand Today, and Lots More – Part 1
Our podcast show being released today is Part 1 of a repurposed interactive webinar that we presented on March 24, featuring two of the leading journalists who cover the CFPB – Jon Hill from Law360 and Evan Weinberger from Bloomberg.
Our show began with Jon and Evan chronicling the initiatives beginning on February 3 by CFPB Acting Directors Scott Bessent, Russell Vought and DOGE to shut down or at least minimize the CFPB.… Continue Reading
New development with FCRA-required forms
With the January 1, 2013 deadline for using the new CFPB model FCRA forms on the horizon, the CFPB apparently took another look at those forms and realized that they contained a few glitches. On November 14, the CFPB published a notice in the Federal Register correcting various typos and technical errors, effective immediately. … Continue Reading