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California Legislation Strengthens Consumer Protections for Servicemembers

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The Act takes direct aim at, among other things, the Military Lending Act’s (MLA) exceptions for loans obtained to purchase motor vehicles and other forms of personal property. Whether auto loan lenders may finance GAP waivers, GPS tracking systems, or other products that consumer advocates argue are credit-related is an open question.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On November 9, the Department of Education (DOE) announced its plan to implement an oversight strategy of federal student loan servicers that provides several pathways for identifying problems that can harm borrowers, in real-time. For more information, click here. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Covid to Cost-of-Living: Assessing Affordability in Uncertain Times

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Triggered in part by the US housing market collapse and an unprecedented number of loan defaults, the crisis uncovered a shocking level of unrestrained lending and excessive risk taking. But a crucial challenge to existing affordability assessments has been the huge spike in ‘buy now, pay later’ loans (BNPL). See all Posts.

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Expanding Access to Credit Through Alternative Data

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Over the past several years, we’ve helped lenders develop on-ramps to mainstream credit using alternative data for those seeking financial inclusion. Our research finds that alternative data sources that demonstrate a consumer’s ability to manage their finances are predictive of consumer credit risk.

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Financial Inclusion Using Analytics

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You need to know, when you have a score on a consumer that you're getting a solid indication of credit risk, you need to know that you're not putting the consumer at greater risk of a foreclosure because a score used in a credit decision for a mortgage or auto loan, was based on a small amount of data, or stale data.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

The report highlights enforcement actions related to the acts and their implementing regulations, including in the areas of automobile purchases and financing, payday lending, credit repair and debt relief, other credit, and electronic fund transfers. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Debt Collection in the Pandemic: UK Lenders Face Big Challenges

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It marks the highest fine ever issued to a lender for what it deemed a breach of consumer credit rules. But more tellingly, the penalty related to the mistreatment of business and personal customers who fell behind on credit card and loan payments between 2014 and 2018 – well before many of us had even heard of COVID-19.

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