A duo of bills passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday (Jan. 29) that would curb financial abuse of senior citizens and also ease the way for consumers residing in rural areas to open their bank accounts via remote means.
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ABA's Rob Nichols: "Chairman Powell has demonstrated his interest in reviewing and refining regulations to ensure they work to reinforce economic growth while preserving the important principles of prudential supervision. ...
There is a major question mark hanging over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) final rule regulating lenders specializing in short-term, small-dollar loans.
Once thought by some to be a safe bet to be voided via the Congressional Review Act, the bureau’s recent announcement that it will reconsider its rulemaking pertaining to payday lending and similar businesses could present an opportunity for depository institutions hoping for regulations that support their own low-cost, short-term financing products.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director, Mick Mulvaney, intensified his efforts this week to curb an agency he has denounced as a regulator run amok. His latest tactic: starve it of cash.
While a consumer advocate in a note to SubPrime Auto Finance News called the action “an insane development,” industry representatives cheered the request by the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for evidence of the regulator’s effectiveness.
Consumer advocates and business groups are battling anew over the possibility the Trump administration will eliminate a rule enacted to ensure that borrowers who take out high-interest loans between paychecks can pay them back.
Clashing with support for a repeal by business groups, the policy arm of product tester Consumer Reports and other organizations say the so-called payday lending rule finalized last year by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be fully implemented as soon as possible.
The new leaders of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are taking the most significant step yet toward unwinding rules panned by the finance industry and the GOP.
The CFPB announced this week that it would delay compliance with new regulatory rules for short-term, high-interest loans, commonly known as payday loans. The agency said it is considering how to roll back those rules.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will review its procedures for investigating financial firms as part of a top-to-bottom examination of agency functions ordered by acting Director Mick Mulvaney. The CFPB is seeking comment on its civil investigative demand (CID) procedures, which the financial services industry has criticized for being “unnecessarily burdensome” and not providing recipients with “a meaningful understanding of why the information is needed,” Benjamin Olson, a partner at Buckley Sandler, told Bloomberg Law.
