
Marketing and compliance: Creating a plan to ensure consistency
New approaches, systems and processes ensure balance between compliance risk management and marketing performance.
New approaches, systems and processes ensure balance between compliance risk management and marketing performance.
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency issued proposed guidance on the abusiveness standard as defined by the Consumer Financial Protection Act.
With uncertainty the rule, the best advice is to have banks’ change-management processes ready for whatever comes.
Marketers are being called upon like never before to assist business lines in achieving their sales objectives.
Keeping up with changing regulations was the top concern for U.S. financial services firms, according to Wolters Kluwer’s annual Regulatory and Risk Management Indicator survey.
CFPB Director Rohit Chopra acknowledged concerns raised by ABA and others that the rule could have an outsized effect on smaller institutions and could affect the supply of credit to the nation’s small businesses.
The American Bankers Association and six other trade groups on Tuesday asked a federal court in Texas to grant summary judgment in their lawsuit against the CFPB for exceeding its legal authority when it expanded the definition of “unfairness” to encompass discrimination in the UDAAP exam manual earlier this year.
Following a documented process should increase bank confidence when aiming to balance AML and consumer fairness risk.
As part of its ongoing efforts to address so-called “junk fees,” the CFPB today issued an advisory opinion stating that the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act prohibits debt collectors from charging “pay-to-pay” or convenience fees—which include fees imposed for making a payment online or by phone—unless those fees are expressly authorized by the agreement creating the debt or the amount of the fee is affirmatively permitted by law.
CFPB’s change is “contrary to law and subject to legal challenge” as well as potential congressional action, the groups said.