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South Carolina Servicemembers Civil Relief Act Signed into Law
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New Jersey Files Lawsuit Against Two Buy-Here Pay-Here Used Car Dealers
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CFPB Publishes 2019 Final Lists of Rural and Rural or Underserved Counties
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CFPB Publishes Informal Guidance on the TRID Rule
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Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Amends Procedure To Obtain Information
On September 12, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) issued a final rule that amends the procedures used by the public to obtain information from the Bureau under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Privacy Act of 1974, and in legal proceedings. A number of the rule’s amendments simply align policy with practice.
Supreme Court to Decide Whether FDCPA Applies to Non-Judicial Foreclosure Proceedings
The U.S. Supreme Court announced on June 28 that it had granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus LLP, et al., and resolve a circuit split on whether the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) applies to non-judicial foreclosure proceedings.
HMDA Reporting to use new formatting tool
On February 1, the CFPB announced the launch of the 2018 HMDA LAR Formatting Tool (the “Tool”). The Tool will help financial institutions create an electronic file to submit HMDA data collected in 2018 and reported in 2019. The Tool is not needed if the financial institution uses vendor or loan origination software to format their HMDA data into a pipe delimited text file, so this Tool will be most useful to those with small volumes of covered loans and applications.
CFPB Final Prepaid Rule
On January 25, the CFPB finalized certain changes to the original Final Prepaid Rule (the “Rule”) proposed last summer. The amended Rule still contains onerous restrictions on credit features and complicated disclosure requirements, but the changes are generally positive for prepaid providers and incorporate feedback from industry representatives.
CFPB finalizes alignment of Regulation B and Regulation C requirements regarding collection of consumer ethnicity and race information
On September 21, the CFPB finalized its proposal to amend Regulation B requirements related to the collection of consumer ethnicity and race information, in order to resolve the differences between Regulation B and revised Regulation C (the “Final Rule”). This Final Rule is effective on January 1, 2018, the same effective date for most of the 2015 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Final Rule.
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