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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JUNE 19, 2023

Today, the CFPB released its Fair Lending Annual Report to Congress , describing our fair lending activities in enforcement and supervision; guidance and rulemaking; interagency coordination; and outreach and education for calendar year 2022.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report raises questions about whether some marketing deals between colleges and financial institutions comply with Department of Education rules. For more information, click here.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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.

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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. with operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency. 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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Troutman Sanders

AUGUST 16, 2022

To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week: Federal Activities. State Activities. VantageScore decided to drop medical debt from its calculations. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

JULY 11, 2023

On July 6, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that, in cooperation with the state of Florida, it will send refunds to consumers nationwide allegedly defrauded by a telemarketing financial services company, and related companies, into paying for credit card interest rate reduction and debt elimination programs.

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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. ” The toolkit offers small businesses free operational tools and educational resources to help reduce cyber risks.

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 1, 2021

The bill will prohibit selling an individual’s debt to another party and reporting adverse information about the individual to consumer credit reporting agencies or credit bureaus. To learn more about how the event promotes consumer education and highlights specific consumer protection issues, click here.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Department of Education released final regulations that streamline and improve the rules for major targeted debt relief programs. House of Representatives, seeking to protect a greater portion of consumers’ disposable income from garnishment. For more information, click here. On October 31, the U.S. For more information, click here.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week: Federal Activities. million to consumers and pay a $500,000 civil penalty for deceiving consumers with false claims about their services.

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Troutman Sanders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

To help you keep abreast of relevant activities, below find a breakdown of some of the biggest events at the federal and state levels to impact the Consumer Finance Services industry this past week: Federal Activities. State Activities. For more information, click here. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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Troutman Sanders

MARCH 15, 2021

House of Representatives that seeks to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to exclude COVID-19-related evictions from consumers’ credit reports. On March 12, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned consumers that scammers will follow, and try to take advantage of, the new COVID-19 rescue plan.

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Troutman Sanders

OCTOBER 24, 2023

On October 18, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that a for- profit college has been ordered to cancel $3.4 Among other provisions under the stipulated order, the for-profit school must request that consumer reporting agencies delete the debt from consumers’ credit reports. For more information, click here.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

The no-action memo concerns the requirement that any Connecticut licensable activity by a Consumer Credit Licensee be conducted from a licensed branch office location so long as certain criteria are met. The no-action position is extended through December 31, 2020. For more information, click here. For more information, click here.

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