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MARCH 20, 2025

Why it matters: If passed, these bills could significantly weaken the CFPBs ability to regulate financial institutions and enforce consumer protection laws. This would be a major win for lenders, debt collectors, and financial service providers, while consumer advocates warn it could reduce oversight of abusive practices.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

10036, The Civil Investigative Demand Reform Act of 2024 would require the CFPB to explicitly reference any alleged violations in CIDs, providing more clarity to financial institutions about the specific conduct under investigation. I’m proud to join Congressman Barr and introduce the Civil Investigative Demand Reform Act of 2024.

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MARCH 27, 2025

The House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Financial Institutions held a hearing titled yesterday aimed at discussing the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being sued by the City of Baltimore and Economic Action Maryland Fund, challenging the administrations actions to defund the bureau. Whats happening: Whats at stake: Learn more.

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MARCH 28, 2025

As part of Wednesday’s hearing regarding the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, a number of bills were reviewed, including two recently introduced measures that would impact rulemaking from the Bureau. 2183) […]

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APRIL 17, 2025

The Bureaus new emphasis on tangible consumer harm, while deprioritizing areas such as medical debt and digital payments, signals a shift in enforcement priorities that may influence the regulatory landscape for many companies in the credit and collection industry.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Proposed amendments to New York Citys rules governing debt collection have drawn significant scrutiny from trade groups outside the collection industry, most notably the American Financial Services Association (AFSA), which submitted a comment letter last week regarding the proposed amendments.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

If you are curious what the priorities of the House Financial Services Committee will be under new Chair Rep. look no further than the decision to change the Subcommittee on Consumers Protections and Financial Institutions to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy. Patrick McHenry [R-N.C.],

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, in conjunction with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, on Thursday released revised procedures for how its examiners will examine financial institutions for their compliance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, incorporating the changes from Regulation F into their review.

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APRIL 19, 2021

A bill has been introduced in the Senate that seeks to prohibit financial institutions from denying services to law-abiding businesses, such as companies in the accounts receivable management industry, as a means of ensuring crackdowns like Operation Choke Point never happen again. The legislation, S. 1088, was introduced by Sen.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Adding insult to injury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday fined one of the nation’s largest credit unions $1.5 Why it matters: The action against VyStar Credit Union underscores the CFPB’s growing focus on the digital capabilities of financial institutions and their impact on consumers.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Why it matters: The delay was granted following requests from financial institutions and healthcare organizations, which argued that the original deadline would impose significant operational challenges. This rule, originally set to take effect in April 2025, will now be implemented on April 11, 2026.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation has fined a fintech company $2.5 million for not responding to consumer complaints in a timely manner that constitutes a violation of California’s Consumer Financial Protection Law, the DFPI said.

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

By the numbers: Why it matters: This action underscores growing scrutiny of peer-to-peer payment systems and could signal tighter regulations ahead, directly impacting debt collectors and financial institutions that use these networks for payments.

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JULY 13, 2023

Updates to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Safeguards Rule , provide financial institutions, including those in the accounts receivable management industry, with requirements on how to safeguard customer information, went into effect on June 9.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Whether these trends will continue as the year progresses remains to be seen, but the impact on spending and debt repayment strategies will be crucial for businesses and financial institutions alike. Learn more.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

the chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, last week reintroduced H.R. 654, the Taking Account of Bureaucrats Spending (TABS) Act, aiming to bring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Congressional appropriations process. Andy Barr [R-Kent.],

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APRIL 8, 2022

A group of 18 state attorneys general sent letters to four of the largest financial institutions in the country this week, urging them to stop charging overdraft fees on consumers by this summer, and while the states did not make any threats in the letter about what would happen if the banks chose not to … The post AGs Call on Big Banks to End (..)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Data from a new survey from reveals a sobering yet opportunity-rich snapshot for credit and collection professionals and the broader financial ecosystem — amid persistent stress and rising consumer expectations, theres a clear desire for more seamless, data-driven experiences that reduce friction in the repayment process.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

The Financial Institution Division (FID) of Nevada’s Department of Business and Industry will be holding a virtual workshop on Tuesday, October 26 at 1pm ET to solicit comments from interested persons about regulations related to SB248, a new medical debt collection law that went into effect earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

In a joint appearance yesterday, President Joe Biden and Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced new guidance that deems a pair of fees charged by financial institutions to “likely” be unfair and unlawful under existing law.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The largest bank in Denmark — also one of the largest financial institutions in Europe — announced yesterday that it has suspended all of its debt collection activities and has earmarked $8 million in compensation and restitution for nearly 8,000 customers from whom it overcollected for years.

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MAY 5, 2022

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced an enforcement action against Bank of America, in which the nation’s second-largest financial institution will pay a fine of $10 million after it was accused of unlawfully garnishing $592,000 from its customers’ bank accounts.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Credit card lenders and financial institutions are apparently a little leery of the state of the economy and consumer’s ability to meet their financial obligations and are keeping balance limits largely stationary for the time being, except for one group of consumers — and it’s probably not the group you would guess — according (..)

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JULY 27, 2022

A California Appeals Court has upheld a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of a financial institution that was sued for not separately itemizing a bonus paid to its call center workers for fluently speaking languages other than English, ruling that the bank did not violate state law in how it compensated employees with … The (..)

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MARCH 11, 2022

March 10 2022 — FedChex, a leader in providing Depository, Treasury, and Risk Management solutions for business and financial institutions, has partnered with CollaborationRoom.ai for its Work-From-Home Agents appeared first on AccountsRecovery.net.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Fine Against Telecom for Enabling Robocalls to FCC Staffers Provana Acquires Palinode, Further Strengthening Dispute Solutions for Financial Institutions WORTH NOTING: A lot of people are feeling very upset these days.

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JUNE 13, 2022

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that an individual’s text messages sent to a financial institution constitute providing expressed consent to be contacted on a mobile phone via an automated telephone dialing system under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, but that the lower court abused (..)

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you are an agency that is still trying to figure out how to be able to accept payments via PayPal or Venmo, you are now two steps behind, because a new instant payment technology for financial institutions has expanded into the United States after a successful launch in Brazil. first appeared on AccountsRecovery.net.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

More than one-third of respondents to a survey conducted by the education arm of a financial institution are carrying medical debt, and 82% of those people are having problems paying it off, according to a report highlighting the survey’s findings.

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JUNE 28, 2021

But, thanks to some questions submitted to the Financial Institutions Division of the Nevada Department of Business and Industry, … The post Daily Digest – June 28.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A District Court judge in Arizona has certified a class in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case that alleged a financial institution made collection calls using an artificial or prerecorded voice to more than 1 million non-customers on their cell phones without first obtaining consent.

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MAY 14, 2021

A day after it was reported that more consumers are paying off their credit balances than at any point this century, a number of financial institutions are planning on sharing data to help consumers without credit scores gain access to credit cards and other types of loans, according to a published report.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This underscores a critical shift: todays consumers prioritize how they are treated by financial institutions just as much as the offerings themselves.

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APRIL 6, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has officially signaled it plans to rewrite its small business lending data collection rule, known as Section 1071, following major leadership changes earlier this year.

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