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CFPB Supervisory Report Finds Issues in Several Financial Institution Practices

Troutman Sanders

The Supervisory Highlights detail issues identified by CFPB examination teams across a wide number of segments of the consumer financial services industry. The CFPB reports that this seems to happen most often with creditors’ acquisitions of pre-existing credit card accounts from other creditors. Debt Collection.

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CFPB Supervisory Report Finds Issues in Several Financial Institution Practices

Collection Industry News

The Supervisory Highlights detail issues identified by CFPB examination teams across a wide number of segments of the consumer financial services industry. The CFPB reports that this seems to happen most often with creditors’ acquisitions of pre-existing credit card accounts from other creditors. Debt Collection.

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CFPB Filed A Judgment Against An Illinois-based Payment Processor

Collection Industry News

On January 18, the CFPB filed a proposed final judgment against an Illinois-based third-party payment processor BrightSpeed Solutions and its founder Kevin Howard (collectively, “defendants”), which ceased operations almost three years ago, settling claims that the defendants facilitated payments for telemarketing fraudsters targeting seniors.

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Financial Inclusion Using Analytics

Fico Collections

in 1989, it meant lenders of all sizes could leverage the technology of scoring and open up credit to consumers that they might not have lent to in the past. Using new approaches to improve financial inclusion. Financial inclusion also means investing in innovation. Hundreds of lenders in the U.S.

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Top 5 Customer Development Posts of 2020: COVID and Beyond   

Fico Collections

In this category, COVID-19 was a pressing topic but didn’t dominate the discussion as it did in the Debt Collection & Recovery category. FICO’s suite of interconnected Acquisition, Origination, and Growth capabilities for Telecommunications helps organizations do exactly that. Here are our top 5 posts from 2020. #1.

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Successors by Merger May Not be Debt Collectors

Consumer Financial Services Law

A recent decision from a Louisiana district court should provide some comfort to banks and other financial institutions who acquire other entities by merger – at least in the Fifth Circuit, they are not debt collectors. As most know, Bank of America (BoA) acquired Countrywide Bank FSB and its mortgage portfolio in 2008. In Jackson v.

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How to Remove CACH LLC from Your Credit Report

Better Credit Blog

Either way, CACH LLC will need to open a collections account on your credit report in order to legally pursue payment. Collection accounts are a black mark on your credit report. Future lenders can see them and make loan decisions based on the fact that you failed to pay a debt. This can mean trouble for your credit score.