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[ December 20, 2024 ] Three of nation’s largest banks sued for allowing ‘fraud to fester’ on Zelle payment network CFPB
[ December 20, 2024 ] WARM holiday greetings: Agency issues quarterly update to tool for calculating CECL NCUA
[ December 20, 2024 ] FinCEN provides financial institutions ‘red flags’ of potential frauds using FinCEN’s name Other
[ December 20, 2024 ] OCC annual report notes sound banking system, but urges banks to guard against complacency OCC
[ December 19, 2024 ] More than one-third of workers at FDIC witnessed or experienced sexual harassment, report asserts FDIC

Rule, proposal aim to improve communications with troubled mortgage borrowers

October 4, 2017 0

Mortgage servicers would receive 10 more days to tell borrowers facing foreclosure — who have requested a cease in communication under federal debt collection law — about their options in preventing the foreclosure, under an […]

CFPB mum on comptroller charge that arbitration rule raises credit cost

October 2, 2017 0

No response has been made yet by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to an allegation that removing arbitration clauses for financial products and services raises costs of credit by about 25%. Acting Comptroller of […]

Title company ordered to cease activity, faces fine

September 27, 2017 0

An Indiana real estate settlement services provider was ordered to pay up to $1.25 million and cease illegal practices of steering consumers to a title insurer owned by its executives, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]

Two in five struggling to make ends meet, bureau finds in ‘financial well-being’ survey

September 26, 2017 0

Millions of American adults – more than two in every five – struggle to make ends meet, and more than one-third of all consumers reported experiencing material hardships in the past year, according to the […]

Rule aims at more flexibility for mortgage lenders in collecting consumer ethnic, race info

September 20, 2017 0

A modification in federal mortgage rules that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said is aimed at providing additional flexibility for lenders in collecting consumer ethnicity and race information was finalized and published Wednesday by […]

High-profile settlement winners lied to by loan-marketing firm, CFPB alleges

September 19, 2017 0

Former professional football players suffering from neurological disorders, victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster, 9/11 first responders and others awaiting payment from legal settlements were lied to by a New Jersey company in loan […]

Guide offers summary for compliance with ‘Arbitration Rule’

September 19, 2017 0

A guide intended to be an easy-to-use summary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Arbitration Agreements rule — and to highlight information that may be helpful when implementing the rule — has been published […]

Student loan trust faces fines, audits for illegal court action

September 18, 2017 0

Alleging that student loan borrowers were illegally sued for private student loan debt that the companies which made the loans couldn’t prove was owed or was too old to sue over, the Consumer Financial Protection […]

‘No action’ letter seeks info about ‘alternative data’ in lending applications

September 14, 2017 0

Calling it a “first,” the CFPB has issued a “no-action” letter to a California company that evaluates loan applications using “alternative data” rather than traditional methods in the agency’s efforts to learn more about how […]

Cordray: housing crisis recovery ‘uneven, painful’ for communities of color

September 13, 2017 0

The recovery from the housing meltdown of 2007-10 has been “uneven and painful” for communities of color, and it may take generations to restore what was lost, the director of the CFPB said Tuesday. In […]

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Three of nation’s largest banks sued for allowing ‘fraud to fester’ on Zelle payment network

December 20, 2024 0

Claiming three of the largest banks in the country allowed “fraud to fester” on an online payment provider, resulting in more than $870 million lost by customers over seven years, the federal consumer financial protection agency Friday filed suit against [...]
WARM holiday greetings: Agency issues quarterly update to tool for calculating CECL

December 20, 2024 0

The latest life-of-loan – or Weighted Average Remaining Maturity (WARM) – factors are included in the updated simplified tool for credit unions released Friday to measure credit losses, their federal regulator said. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said for [...]
FinCEN provides financial institutions ‘red flags’ of potential frauds using FinCEN’s name

December 20, 2024 0

An alert about fraud schemes abusing the name, insignia, and authorities of Treasury’s financial crimes enforcement unit for financial gain was issued this week to warn corporations, money services businesses and financial institutions and urge that suspected incidents be reported. [...]
OCC annual report notes sound banking system, but urges banks to guard against complacency

December 20, 2024 0

The federal banking system is sound, but banks were urged to guard against complacency and remain vigilant according to the national bank regulator’s 2024 annual report, issued Friday. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said the report [...]