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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently filed a $5 million lawsuit against student loan servicers National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts and American Education Services for allegedly ignoring thousands of payment relief requests over six years.
Consumers often pay more for products with more complex pricing structures, according to an April 30 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report.
Mortgage servicers charged homeowners illegal “junk fees” and engaged in other illegal practices, according to a supervisory highlights report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The CFPB fined San Francisco-based for-profit coding vocational school BloomTech and its CEO Austen Allred $164,000 for allegedly deceiving students about loan costs and making false claims about graduates’ hiring rates.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to hire more technologists to continue researching emerging technologies, said Director Rohit Chopra and Chief Technologist Erie Meyer in a March 26 report.
Falsely advertising the speed or cost of sending remittance transfers can violate federal law, according to a March 27 circular from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will propose rules this year to ensure data brokers follow the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Director Rohit Chopra said April 2.
An appellate court disallowed the relocation of a lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s late fee rule to Washington, D.C.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will reportedly systematize requirements for open banking standards-setting organizations to ensure the requirements are fair.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a finalized rule on March 5 that caps consumer credit card fees at $8 per incident. In response, some trade groups filed a federal lawsuit two days later seeking a preliminary injunction against the rule.