CFPB, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Attorneys General
The CFPB has withdrawn its request to OMB to conduct an online survey of 8,000 individuals as part of its research on debt collection disclosures. Last month, the CFPB published a notice in the Federal Register that it was submitting its request to OMB and solicited comments which were due by December 14, 2017.
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In a new white paper, “An Overview of the Analytical Flaws and Methodological Shortcomings of the CFPB’s Survey of Consumer Experiences with Debt Collection,” ACA International takes aim at the report released by the CFPB in January 2017 that presented the findings of the CFPB’s national debt collection consumer survey.
In our blog…
It has been reported that the SBREFA panel for the CFPB’s debt collection rulemaking met last week with small entity representatives (SER). In anticipation of convening the panel, the CFPB issued an outline of the proposals it is considering on July 28, 2016.
According to the report, SERs must submit their written comments by September…
The Government Accountability Office has issued a report on the CFPB’s use of Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) panels in its rulemaking process. The report, “Observations from Small Business Review Panels,” addresses the extent to which the CFPB solicited, considered, and incorporated small entity inputs into rulemakings, and the views of…
The debt collection proposals outlined by the CFPB for the SBREFA panel are driven in large part by the CFPB’s reliance on the data derived from its complaint portal and a consumer survey conducted by the Bureau over several months in 2014-15. The survey results are remarkable in how closely they mirror the complaint portal…
The CFPB has moved a step closer to issuing a debt collection rule by releasing an outline of the proposals it is considering in preparation for convening a small business review panel. The Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act and the Dodd-Frank Act require the CFPB to convene such a panel when developing rules that…
The CFPB has announced that it will hold a field hearing about debt collection on July 28, 2016 in Sacramento, California. We expect the field hearing to coincide with the CFPB’s release of an outline of the proposals it is considering in preparation for convening a small business review panel required by the Small Business…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness has sent a letter to Director Cordray suggesting a series of issues for Mr. Cordray to address in his prepared remarks at the CFPB’s field hearing on arbitration scheduled for this Thursday, May 5.
As the Chamber’s letter notes, the CFPB foreshadowed in the materials…
The CFPB has issued a new report entitled “Online Payday Loan Payments,” summarizing data on returns of ACH payments made by bank customers to repay certain online payday loans. The latest report is the third report issued by the CFPB in connection with its payday loan rulemaking. (The previous reports were issued in…
In remarks earlier this week to the National Credit Union Association, Director Cordray discussed the proposals the CFPB is considering for small dollar loans. In March 2015, in anticipation of convening a SBREFA panel, the CFPB issued an outline of the proposals it was considering for payday (and other small-dollar, high-rate) loans (“Covered Loans”). For…
