Troutman Sanders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 26, 2023

On January 20, 2023, California Attorney General Rob Bonta submitted a letter to the CFPB agreeing with its preliminary determination that California’s Commercial Financing Disclosures Law (CFDL) is not preempted by TILA because the CFDL only applies to commercial financing and not to consumer credit transactions within the scope of TILA.

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Collection Industry News

MARCH 28, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against a firm that used a government website as part of its scheme connected with consumer credit reports. Before providing any services, however, the company illegally demands consumers pay a $1,500 fee up front, according to the complaint. Source- site.

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Collection Industry News

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on December 9, 2020, settled with Complete Merchant Solutions, LLC (CMS) and its former CEO, Jack Wilson, requiring them to pay $1.5 Million Over Charges They Facilitated Fraud appeared first on Collection Industry News. The post FTC Settles with Payment Processor and Former CEO for $1.5

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 19, 2022

A recent settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a lead generator provides new insight into the FTC’s enforcement of sensitive personal data collection and sales under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the agency’s Section 5(a) authority. Consent Order Requirements and Penalties.

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Fico Collections

AUGUST 16, 2021

That’s why at FICO we are constantly innovating with alternative data sources that go beyond the traditional credit bureau file to increase financial inclusion and bring more of these consumers into the system. Rental payment data has always been largely absent from consumers’ credit files.

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 11, 2022

Federal Activities: On January 5, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report, discussing changes in complaint responses provided by nationwide consumer reporting companies, which the CFPB concluded resulted in fewer meaningful responses and less consumer relief. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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 Under the terms of the agreement, the company will refund more than $110,000 to consumers. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 5, 2022

On December 29, 2021, the California Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling, prohibiting a company from collecting on $38 million of unpaid debt as consumers were not provided statutory notice of the risks of cosigning a consumer credit contract. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Collection Industry News

JUNE 19, 2023

The CFPB also released several reports shining a light on factors that may influence fair access to credit, including how medical debt affects tens of millions of consumers’ credit profiles, how people in under-resourced rural areas struggle to access financial services, and the challenges faced by justice-involved individuals and families.

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CSA

JULY 26, 2021

A leading trade association is urging policy-makers to take extra care before prescribing detailed forbearance schemes that could make a customer?s In a new policy report published this week, the Credit Services Association ? s debt purchase and collections sector ? s debt problems worse not better. s detriment. Breathing Space?

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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 9, 2022

In letters dated August 1, the American Bankers Association , Consumer Bankers Association, Credit Union National Association, and National Association of Federally?Insured Insured Credit Unions (Associations), as well as the Bank Policy Institute , expressed their collective displeasure with the idea.

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Troutman Sanders

OCTOBER 16, 2023

On October 11, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a new proposed rule to prohibit junk fees, which are hidden and bogus fees that can harm consumers and undercut honest businesses. The FTC has estimated that these fees can cost consumers tens of billions of dollars per year in unexpected costs.

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Troutman Sanders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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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Fico Collections

JUNE 27, 2022

consumer credit profiles found that roughly 7 million borrowers entered a bankcard accommodation early in the pandemic and had exited accommodation by October 2020. FICO’s analysis of a representative national sample of U.S. Less resilient borrowers also tend to carry higher bankcard balances.

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Collection Industry News

APRIL 11, 2022

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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Nexa Collect

JULY 1, 2020

If you’re not in the habit of checking your credit score every month, you can hire a credit monitoring company to do the tracking for you. To that end, the three consumer credit reporting companies, TransUnion, Equifax and Experian, offer extensive information and assistance to pinpoint the problem on their websites.

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Troutman Sanders

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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 Sanders

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent a warning letter to a financial aid company based in New York as part of its effort to monitor the marketplace for questionable claims arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. On November 16, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its Fiscal Year 2020 Agency Financial Report. On November 16, the U.S.

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Troutman Sanders

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

On October 25, the administrator of Colorado’s Uniform Consumer Credit Code issued an order extending the requirements of sections (4) and (5) of SB-211 and restricting the use of extraordinary collection activities to collect debt or satisfy judgments in Colorado until February 1, 2021.

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Troutman Sanders

MAY 9, 2023

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. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 1, 2021

Senator Chris Van Hollen re-introduced a bill that will prohibit health care providers and their agents from engaging in “extraordinary collection actions” until the COVID-19 pandemic is over or 18 months after enacting the law. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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CSA

MARCH 4, 2021

consumer credit payment holidays to borrowers so far. s main announcements on business taxation: The Chancellor is banking on the volumes of consumer savings squirrelled away in deposits to be unlocked and help get things moving ? Setting the Strategy for Bounce Bank Loan Collections? , mortgage and over 1.7m Chancellor?s

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Troutman Sanders

JUNE 14, 2023

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. For more information, click here.

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Fico Collections

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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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Troutman Sanders

JANUARY 30, 2023

On January 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected Cboe BZX Exchange’s (BZX) request to list and trade Ark 21Shares, the proposed spot-Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) managed by asset managers ARK Investment Management and 21Shares (collectively hereinafter, the “trust). For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 1, 2023

For example, the bill distinguishes a “digital asset” from a “digital commodity,” empowering the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate the former and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to regulate the latter. On July 26, the CFPB published a blog focused on consumer credit scores.

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 11, 2024

On March 6, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam called on Congress to pass legislation addressing regulatory jurisdictions in the crypto industry. The SEC alleged that Shapeshift violated Section 15(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by facilitating trades in crypto assets without registration.

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Better Credit Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Tax liens : Whether local, state, or federal, a tax lien from the government can put a huge dent in your credit profile for the foreseeable future. Charge-offs : If a creditor has given up on collecting a debt from you and charged-off the debt, you can expect credit trouble for years without intervention. This isn’t true.

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Credit Corp

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Why does the credit repair industry exist? As long as data is being collected for credit reports, there’s room for mistakes. They could be the difference in someone qualifying for different credit lines or not. So credit repair, consumer credit and credit bureaus—they’re all tied together.

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Fico Collections

JUNE 20, 2022

Key findings from FICO research on consumer credit files with recently opened Buy Now, Pay Later loans. market: BNPL reporting approach: How a BNPL lender reports these accounts to a credit bureau can materially influence the impact these loans ultimately have on the FICO® Score. consumer credit files.

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Troutman Sanders

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

On October 31, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is taking action against an education technology provider for its lax data security practices that exposed sensitive information about millions of its customers and employees, including Social Security numbers, email addresses, and passwords. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

JUNE 21, 2022

On June 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an update about its December 2021 market monitoring inquiry into Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) — a short-term, no-interest consumer credit product that has become nearly ubiquitous at the point of purchase online and, increasingly, in brick-and-mortar stores.

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Better Credit Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Here are some other establishments that CBNA could stand for: Credit Bureau of North America: The Credit Bureau of North America is a collection agency that collects unpaid debts on behalf of third-party companies. Notify the Major Credit Bureaus. Conclusion.

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Fico Collections

JANUARY 26, 2022

FICO® Score At 716, Indicating Improvement In Consumer Credit Behaviors Despite Pandemic. Ethan Dornhelm wrote: The FICO® Score is the lingua franca, or common language, for the credit scoring industry. It serves as a broad-based, independent standard measure of credit risk. Fewer consumers are actively seeking credit.

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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 16, 2022

Federal Activities: On August 12, VantageScore announced that it completed an extensive analysis on how recent changes have impacted consumer credit score models to how medical collection accounts are reported, including changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. State Activities. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 21, 2022

On March 15, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an administrative complaint against an electronic payment company for allegedly opening credit card processing merchant accounts for fictitious companies on behalf of a business opportunity scam that the FTC previously sued. For more information, click here.

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