CFPB studying ways to improve consumer financial capability, decision-making
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently summarized progress in its efforts to promote financial literacy.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently summarized progress in its efforts to promote financial literacy.
In the wake of its announcement that student loan debt had passed the $1.2 trillion mark, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to focus on student loan debt.
On Sept. 4, Steve Antonakes was named Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The former commissioner of banking for the State of Massachusetts had been Acting Deputy Director.
In its latest Supervisory Highlights report, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau focused on mortgage servicing problems, although it also noted that many nonbanks which fall under CFPB supervision are “more likely to lack robust compliance management systems.”
The ex-CFPB Deputy Director Raj Date has attracted criticism for creating a mortgage company which competes in nonqualified mortgages, a category of loan he helped create at the CFPB. While Date’s conduct has its critics and defenders, one thing is certain. Community banks have been pushed out of the mortgage business by the rules Date helped write, and Date’s company now plans to soak up the extra loans.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently released a mid-year update to its analysis of private student loan complaints, which it began collecting in March 2012.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released new estimates which place outstanding student loan debt near $1.2 trillion.
On July 23, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a complaint against Castle & Cooke Mortgage, alleging that the Salt Lake City-based mortgage bank paid quarterly bonuses to loan officers who nudged borrowers into higher-cost loans.
For more than two years, lawmakers in Congress fought over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s structure.
As the congressionally confirmed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray no longer needs to win the approval of lawmakers in Congress.