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Financial institutions are issuing medical installment loans and credit cards to patients with exorbitant interest rates, according to a May 4 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reported a data breach that impacted more than 250,000 consumers. Media reports indicated that a CFPB employee who has since left the agency forwarded to a personal email account personal information on 256,000 consumers and confidential supervisory information on 45 financial institutions.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing James Carnes and Melissa Carnes, after the couple allegedly hid money through a series of fraudulent transfers to avoid paying more than $40 million in fines.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an expansive analysis on abusive conduct in consumer financial markets earlier this month.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently finalized Dodd-Frank Act Section 1071, which governs the collection and reporting of small business lending data. Under the rule, lenders will be required to collect and report information about the small business credit applications they receive.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined debt collection agency Portfolio Recovery Associates $24 million for illegal debt collection policies and for violating a 2015 settlement with the regulatory agency.
Student loan companies are illegally collecting debts already discharged through bankruptcy, according to a March 17 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bulletin.
Financial institutions, mortgage servicers and some loan providers are illegally charging expenses to customers, according to a March 8 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau supervisory highlights report.
‘Buy now, pay later’ borrowers are more likely to be financially distressed than non-users, according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report.
The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism. The Feb. 27 decision came four months after a three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that the CFPB’s funding mechanism violated the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause because it draws funding from the Federal Reserve instead of Congress.