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CFPB’S SPRING 2021 REGULATORY AGENDA

On June 11, 2021 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published its Spring 2021 Regulatory Agenda. The CFPB’s listed of planned activities include: Small business lending data – Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires financial institutions to collect, report, and make public certain information concerning credit applications made by women-owned, minority-owned, and small businesses. The next action for section 1071 is to release a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which the CFPB anticipates doing in September […]

WHAT’S GOING ON AT THE CFPB?

For the first four months of the Biden Administration the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under the leadership of Acting Director David Uejio, set a blistering pace of proposed and final rules, recission of rules from the Trump Administration, and other actions. Since the beginning of May the agency has been quiet. The confirmation of Biden’s nominee for the Director, Rohit Chopra, has stalled. What is action is expected next? CFPB Leadership Mr. Chopra’s nomination […]

CFPB SEMI-ANNUAL AGENDA

The CFPB recently released its spring 2016 semi-annual agenda.  There are many repeat items listed in this agenda that were also present in the fall 2015 agenda (see Jack’s December 10, 2015 blog article).  Those items repeated from the fall 2015 agenda appear to be either getting closer to final regulatory release or are being pushed further down the priority list.  Some of the items mentioned in the agenda that we may see action on […]