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Can The CFPB Make Debt Collectors Reveal Their Attorney-Client Privileged Documents?

FDCPA Defense

After all, those “supervised institutions” regulated by the CFPB are just the really huge banks, mortgage companies, and securities firms, right? The CFPB recently issued a proposed rule to define “larger participants” in the market for consumer debt collection, i.e., the entities who will be subject to the Bureau’s supervisory powers.