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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On November 7, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that, in 2023 alone, the cumulative penalty amount stemming from consent orders it entered with digital asset-based companies totaled $4.3 For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted motions filed by three groups of trade association intervenors to extend the court’s existing injunction against the CFPB’s enforcement of its final rule under § 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Final Rule) to cover all small business lenders nationwide.

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Credit Report Complaints Jumped In 2021

Collection Industry News

I want to make sure my credit report is accurate so I can at least qualify for loans.’. So they started looking at their credit report more, and they found more mistakes,” he said. But a trade group that represents the credit reporting companies questioned the reliability of the CFPB’s complaint reports.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On May 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a permanent ban from debt relief telemarketing for operators of debt relief scam. The FTC charged the defendants with taking tens of millions of dollars from people by falsely promising to eliminate or substantially reduce their credit card debt.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

Federal Activities: On December 16, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a series of orders to five companies offering “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) credit. The CFPB is concerned about accumulating debt, regulatory arbitrage, and data harvesting in a consumer credit market already quickly changing with technology.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services COVID-19 Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

Federal Activities: On September 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its fifth biennial report to Congress on the consumer credit card market, finding that the market’s growth over the last few years reversed course in 2020. On September 28, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina M.

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Troutman Pepper Weekly Consumer Financial Services Newsletter

Troutman Sanders

On June 8, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a default judgment against a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) Ooki Dao in the U.S. On June 8, the CFPB acted against a medical debt collector for numerous debt collection and credit reporting violations. According to U.S.