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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has investigations underway that span the full breadth of the Bureau’s enforcement authority over providers of financial products and services and their vendors
Credit counseling agencies operate in a dynamic environment influenced by challenges to profitability and survival, increased focus on outcomes to consumers, industry consolidation, advancing technology, and changes in laws and regulations
A number of entities supervised by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”), lawyers and the American Bar Association have expressed concern that providing privileged information to Bureau supervisory personnel could waive the entities’ privilege with respect to third parties
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the "CFPB") recently went live with a telephone hotline and email address for tipsters and whistleblowers with information about potential violations of federal consumer financial laws, with an online tips portal to be launched early in 2012
In the midst of the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression that has captured the attention of lawmakers and the public over the last several years, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act” or the “Dodd-Frank Act”), which was signed into law on July 21, 2010
