Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra faces tough questions next week testifying before the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee.

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.

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.

The ill-conceived proposed rule would increase costs for a significant majority of credit card customers.

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. 

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.

Artificial intelligence can help cut bias out of credit models. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should make it easier for lenders to adopt it.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alerted staff this week that text messages had been sent to employee personal phone numbers claiming to be from Director Rohit Chopra.

The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a fintech audience Thursday that banks need to make it easier for consumers to switch accounts, and should make lending decisions with less reliance on credit scores.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led a group of Democratic lawmakers in writing to executives of large credit card issuers on their late fee policies and costs.

The Richmond, Virginia-based bank has created a $5 million legal reserve fund with an eye toward resolving a long-running regulatory inquiry by the CFPB

The House Financial Services Committee passed several bills through to the full House that would toughen congressional oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Texas Bankers Association, a trade group representing Lone Star State bankers, accused the agency of exceeding its authorities in crafting its rule on collecting data about small business lending activity.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it is still working to notify consumers about the Feb. 14 breach in which a bank examiner sent personal information on 256,000 consumers and supervisory information on 45 institutions to his email.

Prosecutors claim every dollar in subsidy funds from settlements equates to ten times the amount in value in home lending efforts.

The cost and scope of data sharing were among bankers' top complaints, while fintechs would like fewer restrictions, a report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found. 

A pending Supreme Court ruling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure could create dangerous regulatory uncertainty. Congress should act first.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the giant debt collector is a repeat offender that sued borrowers even when it lacked documentation about a debt. The company says it denies wrongdoing but agreed to the settlement.

In a subcommittee hearing on the CFPB, Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., sought to dismiss "sky is falling" concerns about other agencies' funding structures being questioned in wake of potential Supreme Court decision.

The "Taking Account of Bureaucrats' Spending Act" would subject the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to congressional appropriations and change the name of the bureau to the Consumer Financial Empowerment Agency.