On March 3, the CFPB received a rulemaking petition from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) in response to forthcoming FCRA rulemaking announced in the Bureau’s Fall 2022 regulatory agenda. As previously covered by InfoBytes, the Bureau announced it is considering pre-rulemaking activity in November to amend Regulation V, which implements the FCRA. In January, the Bureau issued its annual report covering information gathered by the Bureau regarding certain consumer complaints on the three largest nationwide consumer reporting agencies (CRAs).
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- RMAI introduces a new guide for the accounts receivables management industry, Implementing Diversity Equity Inclusion Best Practices: RMAI Diversity Equity Inclusion Program Baseline Recommendations. This companion guide to the January 2022 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Report on Diversity and Inclusion within Financial Services identifies the foundational areas of a Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) program, as well as steps RMAI member companies can take to establish and mature their DEI initiatives.
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On March 9, the U.S. House Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB]: Ripe for Reform.” The memorandum released in advance stated the hearing would “examine the leadership structure, funding, budget, and operations of the CFPB and areas in which reforms are needed.” Predictably, during the hearings there was a partisan split on the proposed reforms, with Republican members attacking what they characterized as agency overreach in areas such as fee elimination and advocating drastic reforms up to total defunding, while Democratic members of the subcommittee largely supported the agency’s actions.
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