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5TH CIRCUIT CHALLENGES THE CFPB’S RIGHT TO EXIST

In Community Financial Services Association v. CFPB, which has been working its way through the courts since 2018, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) threw out a CFPB regulation governing high-interest-rate lenders and ruled that the way the bureau is funded, is unconstitutional. The immediate impact is that the Payday Lending Rule is suspended in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. The CFPB is expected to appeal to the […]

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME TRID REMINDER

Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends on November 6, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. What does DST have to do with TRID? The TRID rules under Regulation Z require creditors to disclose the time zone applicable to its location when disclosing the date and time the interest rate lock and estimate of closing costs will expire on the loan estimate. As a result, financial institutions located in areas that observe DST need to remember to change the […]

1071 Preparation: What Should We Do Now?

  In the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) of 2010, Congress directed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to adopt regulations that will govern data collection for small business and agricultural lending. Section 1071 of Dodd-Frank amended the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA, Reg. B) to require financial institutions to collect and submit specific data to the CFPB. Congress enacted section 1071 for the purpose of: Facilitating enforcement of fair lending laws. […]

SECTION 1071 TECHNOLOGY READINESS SESSIONS

On August 8, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced live and virtual technical conversations about software used by financial institutions to facilitate compliance with the CFPB’s small business lending rulemaking (referred to as 1071). The CFPB 1071 technical team will share insights into how the CFPB generally builds regulatory compliance systems for the intake of submitted information from financial institutions, such as Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) reporting system. The team will also […]

CFPB INTERPRETATIVE RULE FOR DIGITAL MARKETERS

On August 10, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule laying out when digital marketing providers for financial firms must comply with federal consumer financial protection law. Digital marketers: That are involved in the identification or selection of prospective customers or the selection or placement of content to affect consumer behavior are typically service providers for purposes of the law. Acting as service providers can be held liable by the CFPB […]