The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s anti-arbitration rule is now heading for a courtroom clash. On Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Bankers Association, American Financial Services Association, Consumer Bankers Association, Financial Services Roundtable and a coalition of associations located ... [Read More]

More evidence arrived this week indicating how some contract holders in your portfolio might be struggling to maintain their finances. This time, the research came from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB’s latest survey showed that more than 40 ... [Read More]

Meghan Stringer Musselman, a partner in the Maryland office of Hudson Cook, has been appointed vice chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Banking Law Committee for a three-year term. With approximately 1,950 members, the mission of the Banking Law ... [Read More]

There didn’t appear to be any obvious connection between a representative from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finishing his presentation during the National Policy Conference hosted by the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association and the hotel fire alarm activating as ... [Read More]

Experian Automotive indicated that 30-day delinquency moved little during the second quarter when compared to the same time a year ago, but the 60-day delinquency reading did deteriorate more noticeably. According to Experian’s State of the Automotive Finance Market Report, ... [Read More]

Coinciding with the regulator offering a deeper explanation of its revamped Used Car Rule, Tom Pahl of the Federal Trade Commission made the opening presentation during the National Policy Conference, hosted this week by the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. ... [Read More]

SpringboardAuto highlighted this week that the company has produced an upward trajectory of completed auto financing equal to a compound monthly growth rate of 20 percent. As a result, the company announced it has expanded operations to 22 states, now ... [Read More]

Less than three weeks after revealing a massive cybersecurity data breach, Equifax said that chairman and chief executive officer Richard Smith is retiring from those posts effective today. Current board member Mark Feidler has been appointed non-executive chairman by the ... [Read More]

RoadVantage recently introduced what the F&I program provider called a “powerful and innovative” program for lease customers called Preferred LeaseCare. The company explained this new concept combines the “as you drive” benefits of RoadVantage ancillary products with a lease-end benefit, ... [Read More]

Recent projects completed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute again delved into unsatisfactory assessments of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Coinciding with House Republicans chastising the CFPB over its investigation of Wells Fargo, a wide-sweeping survey conducted ... [Read More]