A&B ABstract: Less than one month into the new year, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) has taken strong measures to make good on its proclamation that “2020 must be the year of the consumer” by: (1) unveiling a 12-member Consumer Protection Task Force to help implement an extensive consumer protection agenda; and (2) […]
Consumer Loan
CFPB Issues Its Fall 2019 Rulemaking Agenda
A&B Abstract: On November 20, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “Bureau” or “CFPB”) published its Fall 2019 Rulemaking Agenda (the “Rulemaking Agenda”) as part of the Fall 2019 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Rulemaking Agenda sets forth the matters that the Bureau reasonably anticipates having under consideration during the […]
Federal Court Inspects Maryland’s Restrictions on Inspection Fees
A&B Abstract: Maryland’s inspection fee statute has been interpreted by the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation (“OCFR”) to apply both at the time of origination and throughout the servicing of a residential mortgage loan. More recently, a lower federal district court decision came to a different […]
Maine Enacts Law Protecting Victims of Economic Abuse
A&B Abstract: An Act to Provide Relief to Survivors of Economic Abuse (the “Economic Abuse Law”), effective September 19, 2019, is aimed at preventing “economic abuse” by providing certain protections to victims of such abuse, in part, by imposing additional obligations on debt collectors and consumer reporting agencies (“CRAs”). Debt collectors and CRAs should carefully review […]
A Closer Look at the CFPB’s Proposed Debt Collection Rules – Part Four: Other Conduct Provisions
A&B Abstract This blog post is part four of a five-part series examining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (the “CFPB” or “Bureau”) proposed rule amending Regulation F (“Proposed Rule”), which implements the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) to prescribe rules governing the activities of debt collectors. In part one of this series, we provided […]