The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is warning digital marketing companies working with financial firms that they must comply with federal law. Marketers engaged in identifying prospective customers or placing content to affect consumer behavior are typically considered service providers under the law, according to...
Several Democratic senators fired off a letter to U.S. Bank CEO Andrew Cecere demanding additional information after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fined the financial institution (FI) $37.5 million in a customer accounts scandal. The letter also asks that U.S. Bank brief Congressional staff...
Goldman Sachs said Thursday (Aug. 4) it is cooperating with an investigation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) into its credit card business. In a regulatory filing Thursday, the investment banker said the CFPB probe was looking at Goldman’s “credit card account management practices,...
The Clearing House has petitioned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to make new rules around aggregation services, or third-party companies dealing with peoples’ financial data, many of which aren’t looked into closely by the CFPB. The Clearing House lays out a case that there’s...
Auto finance companies were sent a joint letter from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alerting them about the additional protections offered to military families under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). While non-military borrowers have the same...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered carmaker Hyundai to pay more than $19 million for providing inaccurate information to credit reporting companies. The CFPB announced the penalty Tuesday (July 26), saying it was its largest ever Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) case against...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) should use its authority under Regulation E and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) to protect consumers from payment scams on peer-to-peer (P2P) services like Zelle, according to a letter sent to the agency by six U.S. Senators, all...
Victims of scams involving Zelle and other peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfer services could be getting new assistance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by way of proposed increased requirements on banks. Banks could be asked to pay back more customers who are the victims...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may need to extend the deadline to submit comments on its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) about credit card late fees if it wants to have meaningful feedback from stakeholders. On June 22, the CFPB took its first...
