CFPB News & Analysis
CFPB News & Analysis
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The watchdog claims that during internal testing, the company illegally processed $2.3 billion in mortgage payments.
June 27 -
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 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra warned that "powerful firms" must not dominate the new open banking landscape.
June 12 -
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 -
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.
June 1 -
The ill-conceived proposed rule would increase costs for a significant majority of credit card customers.
June 1 -
With billions of dollars at stake, financial institutions weighed in on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's proposal to cut credit card late fees to $8, claiming, in part, that small banks and credit unions will suffer economic harm if the plan goes into effect as proposed.
May 24 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged in 2020 that Citizens failed to investigate certain fraud claims and billing disputes. A key allegation was that the bank required customers to provide a notarized affidavit to support a fraud claim.
May 23