Tag Archives: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

If and when the current economic boom takes a downward turn, servicers will need to rely on three critical elements to help support their loss mitigation efforts: data, technology, and people. Editor’s note: This feature originally appeared in the February issue of DS News, out now.

President Trump recently nominated Kathy Kraninger, an associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, to succeed Mick Mulvaney as Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. With a week to let the news settle, how has the industry reacted to her nomination?

Speaking at an industry conference this week, Mick Mulvaney, Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, outlined the bureau’s ongoing shift away from “regulation by enforcement” and toward more regulatory clarity. During a keynote speech at the 2018 REALTORS ...

CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney’s tenure at the head of the regulatory organization has been defined by a reexamination of the Bureau’s priorities and purpose. That trend continued this week with the issuance of a new memo written by Mulvaney ...

Richard Cordray, formerly the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Tuesday night clinched the Democratic nomination for the governorship of Ohio. Campaigning on both his history at the CFPB and a promise to focus on economic matters affecting ...

Speaking at a recent industry event, Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Mick Mulvaney told an assembled crowd of bankers that numerous changes were in store for the bureau. Among those changes: the bureau will no longer post consumer complaints ...

Wells Fargo will pay CFPB and OCC a billion dollars in fines for overcharging car insurance and mortgage loan consumers. Here’s what lawmakers from both sides are saying.

The House Financial Services Committee recently advanced a bill, H.R. 5082, that could have major implications for the default servicing industry, and most especially the law firms that work within it. The bill amends the definition of “debt collectors” under ...

A group of a half dozen trade associations recently sent a letter to Mick Mulvaney, Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The letter raises objections over 2016 amendments to the CFPB’s  2013 RESPA and TILA Mortgage Servicer Rule, ...

4:51 p.m. CST // On Monday afternoon, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officially released its strategic plan for fiscal years 2018 - 2022, confirming a shift away from enforcement that had been rumored by alleged internal memos earlier during the day. In ...