Compliance for 2023: What does the future hold?
With uncertainty the rule, the best advice is to have banks’ change-management processes ready for whatever comes.
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Four key bank marketing trends for 2023
Marketers are being called upon like never before to assist business lines in achieving their sales objectives.
Survey: Regulatory change remains top concern for banks
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.
Chopra: 1071 rulemaking to be completed by end of March
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.
ABA, associations seek summary judgment in CFPB lawsuit
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.
AML and UDAAP: Secrecy vs. transparency
Following a documented process should increase bank confidence when aiming to balance AML and consumer fairness risk.
CFPB issues advisory opinion on pay-to-pay, convenience fees
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.
ABA, trade groups: CFPB exceeds authority with exam manual update
CFPB’s change is “contrary to law and subject to legal challenge” as well as potential congressional action, the groups said.
GOP lawmakers: CFPB must undo changes to UDAAP enforcement, adjudications
House Republican lawmakers this week slammed recent changes made by the CFPB to its supervision examination manual for unfair or deceptive acts and practices and its rules of practice and procedure regarding administrative adjudication procedures, noting that these actions “deviate significantly from past practices” and were taken outside of the notice and comment process.
CFPB to examine nonbanks for consumer risks
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today said it would invoke a “largely unused” authority under the Dodd-Frank Act to directly examine nonbank financial services providers. “Given the rapid growth of consumer offerings by nonbanks, the CFPB is now utilizing a dormant authority to hold nonbanks to the same standards that banks are held to,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra.