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While small business lending as a whole has increased since the Great Recession, fewer banks and thrifts are engaged in the market, according to a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed settlement with Think Finance, LLC, formerly known as Think Finance, Inc., and six subsidiaries which would resolve a 2017 lawsuit.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the U.S. Department of Education announced a new coordination agreement in order to better serve student loan borrowers.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finally offered a clarification of the ‘abusive’ standard laid out in the Dodd-Frank Act nearly a decade after its passage. The CFPB said it would focus on citing or challenging conduct as abusive in supervision and enforcement matters only when “the harm to consumers outweighs the benefit.”
William MacLeod, a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, will join the previously announced slate of members of the taskforce on federal consumer financial law at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed suit against several companies and individuals involved in offering student loan debt-relief services for allegedly obtaining consumer reports illegally, charging unlawful advance fees, and engaging in deceptive conduct.
Marketing credit cards to college students is on the decline, according to a recent report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
A group of Democratic lawmakers has rebuked Kathy Kraninger, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a letter.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a notice of proposed rulemaking relating to the remittance rule.
A nonprofit student loan consumer group has filed a lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleging it has manipulated federal policy and failed in its duty to regulate companies that service student loans. The lawsuit also names the Department of Education.