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District Courts Split on Convenience Fees Under Debt Collection Laws

September 16, 2020 By Michael Agoglia and Rachel Naor

A&B ABstract: In a number of recent decisions, district courts have split on the issue of whether a mortgage servicer violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) and related state debt collection statutes by charging a borrower a convenience fee for making a mortgage payment over the phone, interactive voice recording system (“IVR”). FDCPA […]

Filed Under: Debt Collection, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Mortgage Loans, Mortgage Servicing, State Law Tagged With: #conveniencefees, #IVR

CFPB Issues Winter 2020 Supervisory Highlights

February 25, 2020 By Morey Barnes Yost and Nanci Weissgold

A&B ABstract: The Winter 2020 Supervisory Highlights identifies the CFPB’s findings from recent examinations, noting violations that resulted in compliance management system weakness. CFPB Issues New Edition of Supervisory Highlights: The Winter 2020 edition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) Supervisory Highlights details recent examination findings relating to debt collection, mortgage servicing, and student […]

Filed Under: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Debt Collection, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Mortgage Loans, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Student Loans, Truth in Lending Act (TILA) Tagged With: #SupervisoryHighlights

Seventh Circuit Declines to Adopt FDCPA “Benign Language” Exception

February 19, 2020 By Consumer Finance Team

A&B ABstract: The Seventh Circuit’s ruling in Preston v. Midland Credit Mgmt. departs from other circuits that have considered whether there is a “benign language” exception under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”). The Seventh Circuit, ruled, as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) urged in an amicus brief, that the FDCPA does not […]

Filed Under: Circuit Court Decisions, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Debt Collection, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) Tagged With: #benignlanguage, #FDCPA, #Preston

CFPB Issues Its Fall 2019 Rulemaking Agenda

November 27, 2019 By Nanci Weissgold and Anoush Garakani

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 […]

Filed Under: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Consumer Loan, Debt Collection, Dodd-Frank Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Mortgage Loans, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), TRID, Truth in Lending Act (TILA) Tagged With: #CFPB, #debtcollection, #FDCPA, Ability to Repay, Debt Collection, QM, QM Patch

A Closer Look at the CFPB’s Proposed Debt Collection Rules – Part Five: The Devil is in the Details, Purgatory is what is Left Unsaid

September 10, 2019 By Nanci Weissgold

A&B Abstract This blog post is part five of a five-part series examining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (the “CFPB” or “Bureau”) proposed rule amending Regulation F (the “Proposed Rule”), which implements the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) to prescribe rules governing the activities of debt collectors. The idiom “the devil is in the […]

Filed Under: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Debt Collection, Dodd-Frank Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), State Law, Unfair, Deceptive and Abusive Acts or Practices (UDAAP) Tagged With: #CFPB, #debtcollection, #FDCPA, Debt Collection, Servicing, UDAAP

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