Tag Archives: CFPB

In remarks posted yesterday to the agency’s website, Dave Uejio, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, offered the first sign of what may happen to the debt collection rule, hinting that the enactment of the rule may either be delayed or reconsidered in some form. The remarks …

The Government Accountability Office has issued a report analyzing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s compliance with procedural steps related to its release of the debt collection rule, which the GAO is required to perform and provide to both houses of Congress. A copy of the report can be accessed by …

Trying to “overturn or rewrite Trump-era rules around debt collection” will be a focus area for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a published report, which cited comments from a pair of consumer advocates as evidence. The comments were part of a broader report aimed at spotlighting the priority …

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following was authored by Amanda Payton, the vice president of compliance and risk management at Solutions by Text and is re-published here with her permission. Text messaging is the most widely utilized form of communication, with over 23 billion text messages sent daily worldwide. Consumers prefer to …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released a special edition of its Supervisory Highlights report, detailing information it received from the entities it regulates about how they have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic hit last March, the CFPB re-scheduled about half of its supervisory examinations and replaced …

If you had $5,000 in credit card debt, and a random amount of savings between $1,000 and $10,000, how much of that savings would you use to pay down that debt? That was the hypothetical question that researchers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau put to consumers recently, seeking to …

While not a lot may be known about Dave Uejio, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he is not looking to just keep the director’s seat warm for Rohit Chopra, who has been tapped by President Biden to be the next director of the agency, according to …

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President Joe Biden named temporary heads to the three major government agencies regulating the accounts receivable management industry — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. Dave Uejio, the CFPB’s chief strategy officer will be acting director until Rohit Chopra is confirmed by …

At the request of President Joe Biden, Kathleen Kraninger resigned as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday, effective immediately. The move paves the way for her to be replaced by Rohit Chopra, once he is confirmed by the Senate. Kraninger helmed the CFPB for 25 months, taking over …