The banking, lending, and debt collection industries will have to wait a bit longer than expected for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) progress on the debt collection rulemaking. This is the second delay since the U.S. government independent agency launched its advanced notice of...
In his semi-annual Report to Congress and the President this week, CFPB Director Richard Cordray provided an overview of the bureau’s progress in protecting consumers from financial harm. So far, billions has been put back in consumers’ pockets and a slew of actions against banks...
September 13, 2016
As the fallout continues from last week’s revelations about Wells Fargo‘s “out-of-the-box” methods for upping consumer enrollment in their various products (which included signing consumers up for products without so much as getting their permission or even informing them), there seems to be some slightly heartening news for banking customers this week. Well, customers other […]