Colleen M. Couture
Mayer Brown
Articles
Borrower, Don’t Lend Me A Hand - Remote Notarization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
USA - April 9 2020 Life goes on, even when faced with COVID-19. People must sell and buy homes. And with mortgage rates at close to all-time lows, refinancing a home…
Debt Collection During and After the Pandemic: Do Certain US Legislators and Agencies Seek a Debt Collection Ice Age?
USA - May 21 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, state and federal lawmakers have taken aggressive measures to protect the health and economic security of their…
Debra Bogo-Ernst, Anjali Garg, Steven M. Kaplan, Eric T. Mitzenmacher
That’s the Spirit: The Haunting of the CFPB’s GSE Patch
USA - October 29 2020 On October 20, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the Bureau) issued a final rule extending the Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE)…
The Taxpayer First Act and the Impact on Secondary Market Participants
USA - February 11 2020 The Taxpayer First Act (the “Act” or “TFA”) imposes new limits on the disclosure of US taxpayer tax information obtained on or after December 28…
CFPB Announces Policy Regarding Prohibition on Abusive Acts or Practices
USA - January 29 2020 On Friday, January 24, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“Bureau” or “CFPB”) published a Policy Statement clarifying how it intends to…
