Kate Berry has covered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for American Banker since 2016. She joined the publication in 2006 covering mortgage lending and the financial crisis. Berry also has covered big banks including Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She has won five awards from the Society of American Business Writers and Editors, and has worked at several news organizations including the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Business Journal and the Associated Press. Berry began her career as a clerk at the New York Times.
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A former employee of The Change Company, which is the largest non-traditional mortgage lender in the U.S., claims in a new lawsuit that the firm mischaracterized the race, ethnicity and income of its borrowers. The company says the allegations, which relate to the representations it makes to be certified as a community development financial institution, are meritless.
June 23 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued two reports analyzing banking and consumer credit trends in the South, where many rural areas are considered "banking deserts."
June 21 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to issue a larger participant rule that would allow the agency to examine consumer payment markets. The rule will allow the CFPB to examine and supervise Big Tech companies such as Apple, Alphabet's Google, PayPal and Square.
June 16 -
Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra as an 'extortionist' and labeled his efforts to rein in discrimination as 'McCarthyism' during a four-hour hearing Wednesday.
June 14 -
Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, lambasted the Federal Reserve for increasing the dominance of "too big to fail" banks and failing to rein in systemic risk. He asked whether the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a better regulator than the Fed.
June 13 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra faces tough questions next week testifying before the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee.
June 8 -
Chatbots may provide inaccurate information, may run afoul of consumer financial protection laws and may force consumers into "repetitive loops of unhelpful jargon," the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned.
June 6 -
Jennifer Schachterle will oversee the Home Loan bank's relationships with nearly 330 members. Two former members — Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic — failed this year, and consolidation has also thinned its ranks.
June 6 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued only 20 enforcement actions in 2022, but some observers say the enforcement numbers belie the results that director Rohit Chopra is getting from other ways of holding companies accountable.
June 5 -
After an appeals court sided with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in February, the CFPB and PayPal filed a round of legal arguments in late May to resolve remaining claims from a lawsuit PayPal first filed in 2019.
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